sereiat. 0 me "Ko." tone thing which does not change—the qualities which have created for the "British nation the position it holds in the world to-day.
"Records of Our Past"
Paris, Feb. 10.
The Ialian airman, Signor Alber-ini, crashed. outside the aerodrome Lo Bourget to-day as he was leav-jing for London to attack the Cape record. His machine was, destroyed, but the four members of the crew "phose who take 1 pessimistic view! of our future would do well to study! again the records of our past. They would do well to note the constant reassertion of that same British character which, in spite of failures} ind defects, has made our history. So. long as that remains true and unimpaired, T see no cause for pessimis, or for that particular form of pessimism which goes by the nome defeatism, were sufe—Reuler,
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