MEMENTOES OF THE PAST

Declares British Race Riots May Not Have Been All Bad

LONDON (Reuters)—The Arch- bishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geof- frey Fisher, said Wednesday race

fiots-last fall were a shock to

Britons and the shock is “‘not a bad thing” if it awakens the na- tion.

The Church of England pri- Mate. addressing the upper house of the church’s southérn con- vocation of Canterbury, said: .

“If the country did not recog- Mize the peril it was in before, I think it is not a bad thing that the people of this country should have ‘had this shock to wake them

Dr. Fisher opposed a resolution adopted by the lower house urg- ing the government to anticipate | the @vents with a constructive policy.

K also urged the church to give greater attention to non-white im-

migrants.

LIVED NEAR DUNDAS

Shortly before dawn on this

date exactly 150 years ago, a small group of British soldiers &ped ‘swiftly thfough ‘the streets

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral pote,

As his corse to the ramparts we hurried; .

Not a soldier discharged his fare- well shot

O’er the grave where our hero

~ we buried.

We buried him darkly, at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turn- ing; By the struggling moonbeams’ misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.

No useless coffin confined his breast; -

§| Nor‘in sheet nor in shroud we

: wound him—

4) But he lay, like a warrior taking

his rest,

1 With his martial cloak around

him!

1| Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sor- row;

But we steadfastly gazed at the face of the dead Be And bitterly thought of the mor-

row.

We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed. And smoothed down his lonely

pillow. That the or the stranger would o'er his head,

And we far’ away on the billow.

Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that’s gone

And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him—

But nothing he'll reck if they’’ll let him sleep on In-the grave where has laid him.

Briton But half of our heavy task was done

for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gup

We carved not a lire, we rais- ed not a stone—

But we left him alone with his glory.

Declaring himself ‘‘extremely OLE NE unwilling” to pass the resolution, | os - — the archbishop said: “How on! Fossils of reindeer found in |

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ticipate events?”

5 REFERENCE OMITTED The lower house resolution was amended to omit any reference to the government and was car-

ried.

Meanwhile, in York, northern Engiand, Bishop Donald Coggan of Bradford introduced a five- — charter for non-whites at convoca-

-church’s northern tion.

British peat beds show the oré-| hiStoric deer were much larger than.the modern species.

When the clock struck the hour)

That the foe was sullenly fir-' ing.

Slowly and sadly we laid him down,

From the field of his fame, fresh and gory;

—Rev. Charlies Wolfe

and, with the briefest of cere- mony, deposited therein the mor-

\tal remains of their beloved’ lead-

er, and hurried off to embark for/ home on the naval vessels an- chored--on-tee _

ISLAND COUNTERPART

Forty-seven years and some months later, on July 16, 1856, another somewhat larger funeral procession wound northward “én the narrow track. that through sunny Island fields led from Cumberland Hill, Lot 55, to the little cemetery néar the village of Dundas. .

The remains being acompan- ied to its last resting place that mid-summer day was that of yet another soldier, William Johnston, late sergeant with the 42nd. Re- giment of Foot (Black Watch), who, almost five decades. earlier had helped carry Sir John from Corunna’s bloody field and later | assisted at his burial.

Only a plain, rectangular, wea- ther-worn headstone marks the grave of this gallant soldier, who, in a stirring era now almost for- gotten, helped to set the stage for the final overthrow of the little Corsican who had terroriz- ed Europe for almost 20 years. No trace remains of the Cum- berland Hill homstead he built with such care and effort over a century ago. Only direct descen- dents known are store-keeper Harry Johnstone, and school mis- tress Minnie MacDonald, both re- sidents of Montague, and bank manager, W. M. Mellish of Char- lottetown. All are great-great grandchildren of the old soldier.

SERVED 21 YEARS

In the 21 years that Johnston served with the 42nd, he saw ac- tion in many of the important engagements of the Peninsular War. Wounded at Corunna, he was also wounded at Salamanca, at the storming of Fort St. Mi-

‘|chael, at Bourgeois, and Toulouse.

On his discharge in 1814 a grateful government grantéd him the munifient pension of one shilling per day. Thirty-eight

Victoria Medal.

soldier spent in his native Ross- shire, game-keeper to various landed

and the Parish of UVigg.

sion, and with his wife children, set out for Canada. OPPOSED WELLINGTON In doing so he went directly

friend and one-time commander, | the famous Duke of Wellington, who, in a letter written the yéar previous had cautioned Johnston,

FEB. 4th - 5th

years later he was awarded the The next 18 years, the former, serving as forester and gentlemen in and about Cromarty But the call of the veteran,!

and in 1832 he mortgaged his pen-| and ;

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P.E.1. Pioneer Helped Bury Sir John Moore

“not to seek for a Provision in the Colonies of North America,” unless “* and in a sit* unless “‘able-bodied and in a sit-

on She Duke- also. advised._his..old . comrade against ‘selliag or mort-':

gaging his pension.

That Johnston’s first .years. in Prince Edward Island were not particularly sucessful is indicat- ed by the fact that in 1844 he for} warded a petition to Sir James Carrick Moore, Sir John’s broth- er, in which he asked that dig- nitary to use his influence to persuade the British government to reinstate his former pension.

Moore did so, but the request was turned down. Wellington's letter and the text of Moore's reply to Johnstone are two of the many letters and documents preserved by the old soldier and now in the possession of his great - great grandson, Hafry Johnstone.

ESTEEMED BY OFFICERS

Others show the great esteem in which he was held by the of- ficers of the 42nd. One of these, dated at Aberdeen, December 22, 1824, and signed by Major Robert Anstruther states that in the nine years this officer knew him Johnstone conducted him- self ‘‘as becometh a soldier, with the strictest honesty. sobriety, and uniform good behaviour.” °

As to his bravery in action, the same officer asserts that “I will not allow that there ever was a man could do more for the honor of the Corps to which he belong- ed.”

Against this background, the snobbish claptrap contained in a

by one of the Scottish landown- ers Johnstone later served sounds boorish indeed. To the brief ad- mission that Johnstone had per- formed his duties diligently this

letter of recommendation issued |

Move To Block Articles On The Royal Family

LONDON (Reuters)! An in- terim injunction was granted by

the former superintendent of Windsor Castle from “publishing any details’ of his service with the Royal Family.

The ban imposed on the 51- year-old former official, now. op- erator of an inn, following pub- lication in last week’s Sunday Pictorial of an article entitled:

William Ellis; ‘the mian who ran her weekend home.” ~* The.. announcement of the

and very expert at trapping ver-

LAST SURVIVOR

‘ Last survivor of Sergeant John- ston’s immediate family, Jahn Moore Johnstone died at Cum- berland Hill on the 28th. of De- cember, 1891, at the age of 66.

His obituary published the fol- lowing month describes him as “a warm friend, a man of cul- ture, and generous to a fault,” and indicates that he,was also a man of means having prospered in the ship-building business and the “knee trade.”

The inscription on the elder Jehnston’s monument concludes with the following verse: “Beneath these clods of silent

dust *“‘We sleep where all the living

must; “The gayest youth, the fairest face, “E’er long must sleep in this dark place.”

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