Show x F A A g A 7 alt W OT attl straight up out of the LOOMING will ea the rock of gibraltar stun today as it has stood two centuries in the grasp of britain never censing bensing in her igi 1 liance britaina larita Brit luv ains thin rod red line soldiers of tins hits etoia tills well weil impregnable fortress year in zad oad year out wars have come end anti wnm war have gone lut but no power fara for a century has even threat boned tile looming forbidding tock rock they say the lie central powers of of nu ku rope offer to give the frowning rock hack back to spain if spain mill cast her lot with bliem nut but before the gift may he be made anade by the austro it must first bo be won you have to catch your rabbit you know before you can call skin it and in the meantime great creat britain keeps her never ending watch over the portal ot of thy the mediterranean every moment day and night in times of pence peace as well as lit in times of war for upward of 0 years a line of british gentl ls lins lias stood on oil tho ilie shore 1 atle of the rock wat watching ehing out over n ingrow strip of low tying lying neutral ground toward the shore of spain to guard diard against surprise and every moment for over JOO years a sentry tins lias stood upon the highest pili pinnacle tincle of lie hie rock and gazed out over thu the son sea rations of sentinels have lived and led and bl been cn replaced by others wars have come and gove gore no allic lins has ever hoen been made or even threatened the rock but the eternal vigilance ling has never relaxed not im ono one nil titita in n the last years the sleepless vigilance through the century may well betoken betaken be taken its as typical topical of the ho bulldog temper ol 01 the british P people eople they have salted tills yock rock down with their blood and bones they have given too many lives for it to ever give it up nov so long as it a british soldier lives to fight for it and ED BO tills precipice of rock looming ining out of the son looking out across tile tho strait to the shore of africa the mysterious mister lous keeps on brooding blooding there lif in erlin st acl lence with its thousands of oc guns hot ted always ready ever watching lod through the centuries honeycombed with tunnels britain has held the rock of gibraltar for years and lias has d it so BO strongly that it has been for a century as impregnable gibraltar br altar 11 to capture it an attacks ng force literally have to pound the vast roe roc 0 ft dust gibraltar Is it luny iny combed u 4 tunnel and the muzzles of the greatest guns in the world bristle from a thousand openings in fix lie face of the rock like pins stuck in n a paper what would those runs guns be doing to a fleet or land force that got shells lie he rock it Is very well to state ns some military men have sold these past two years that modern guns which can shoot more than the 20 miles across the ho farrew gap gal that divides europe from africa could render the place untenable but no power yet lins has seen fit to try it out the odds are too grent great and the prize too considerable for the ihu price fruitless siege of four years tile last kinle nn art attempt ans ninde made to take gibraltar was years ears ago france and n lid spain together undertook to capture gibraltar from rom the british the rock hidden bidden in the tunnels like ants in a lull 1111 were british soldiers idlers attacking them were of at the best trained flit flinters ers in the world and a fleet of 47 ships for four yeats the siege went on it was ivas one ona of the greatest sieges lit in till nil history and there were many deeds of daring but the had bad never a chance against safely hidden in their rock cells just the muzzles of their guns thrust out and hurling red hot iron ashot that u was uso so a century ngo ago 13 ever ver since then the human moles garrisoned there have axen boring and burrowing deeper into the tock rock storla storing food nud and ammunition la in great chambered galleries S min cann below the sea level mounting larger guns gun and ma making king ae rock as aa nearly unconquerable as possible they oro are never idle those human moles tile are arc always making tile the place stronger tt ronger gibraltar has been the scene of 13 cleges and many battles its rocky slopes have aba run red wilh blood early armies rained mined their against it and their battering rams tried to powder its ita natural wailly centuries before the age of powder and iron iran balls for ahls Is one of natures this western gate of the this cliar of solid limestone was one tf of the billars of Iler hercules cules beyond ach it was though anciently no man auche venture and live beyond was wa Th thaile tille the tha lout last island the end DE of till botor the ventur aff ony it ln the he atlantic tin mines of 0 britain had it a avny station and fort on the rock centuries later the erected watch tow ers upon it to lo oll ls serve erv lie galleys ol 01 their iligir noman grivnik A tile the captured lt it and the gotha took tok it fron the romany romans tho the moors got ct it nex and held it for or years tho howletr Hos hosts landed there to overrun over rup crupe alwa always rs the power that held cwb tile the rod was a power world coin merco aud ami never since the days 0 1 hercules has the rock been so BO forbid ling ding us its it Is tilts tills minute |