News Advocate | 1915-12-10 | Page 10 | When Cyprus Had a Boom

wien we w e n cyprus had a for a quai ter century cyprus has almost vanished ani shea from view but it had hal a tremendous vogue in the day days when lord brought peace with honor from the berlin congress of 1878 for shortly afterwards came cams the news that cyprus commanding command ta the eastern mediterranean and the suez route to india had become british protectorate and the nation went dizzy with delight at the pyrotechnic policy of our imaginative premier there was quite a rush 0 of en eu I 1 ter 3 oung men to the island for a a year or so but lla its coast could not provide harbors to supersede super sede malta and cyprus was left to go its quiet way was london dally daily chronicle