Show HEARD THE BRITISH GUNS the people of sugar house ward celebrated the national day of independence nd yesterday july 4 with a great wade parade the reading of the declaration of independence and other exercises i among the speakers were the ven vener er able president of the church wilford woodruff during the course of his remarks he mentioned that when he was about seven years old and living with his hie family in the state of connecticut a british fleet bombarded the coast one day his father placed him on the top of a barn where he could distinctly hear bear the boom of the cannon of the bombarding fleet at the time for 1 eign opinion of the united states navy was that it was about worthless but i 70 this did not prevent it from obtaining some we of the most brilliant achieve 1 i 1 ments of naval warfare that was a lesson to the world then a lesson that lum ime been repeated at manila and santi 1 ago never again to be forgotten |