Every student of the Napoleonic wars is familiar with the part which Corfu played in the plans of the great Frenchman. The greatest misfortune that could happen to me" he wrote "would be its loss. Corfu acquires more importance every day, for the English if they were its masters would be masters of the Adriatic also." That is why the Allies have taken possession of the island. It lies southeast of Italy's "heel," close to the Albanian coast from which it is separated by a channel that, at its northern end is scarcely two miles wide, A little smaller than Angle-sey, its surface is hilly and places mountainous, Int. Pantokretor to the northeast being over 3,000 feet, Its capital, also called Corfu, is picturesquely situated on the dopes and snmm rocky heights and in days gone by was very strongly fortified. The harbour lying below affords ex-
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