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Show PORTUGAL RETURNS. It is almost a round 400 years since the name of Portugal led all the rest upon the rolls of European statecraft and adventure. Now her name reappears re-appears in history at Laventie, near the Flanders line, taking her small share in the nbt for civilization Her old glory came as swiftly as it went. It came not in Europe, by thrashing oyer old boundaries that England and Spain for centuries, but by adventure overseas. A great com mercial empire it was that grew to supremacy in the three centuries trom Denis to John III, Irom 1825 lo 1557. Prince Henry the Navigator carried the Portuguese flag far southward in , his search for an eastward route to ; the Indies Vasco da Gama rounded the I 'apt of Good Hope. Maderia, the Abores. Morocco. Brazil and the inlands in-lands of the East! From Lisbon to unda straits the Hag of King John flew. The collapse came swiftly. Con-j Con-j querors and earthquake worked their ruin and the empire overseas all but ' vanished. It is a new Portugal that fights by our side in Prance today B ' Q I Bplril and courage are old and tried In the romance of nations there is no more striking and spectacular figure than this old time hero return-jed return-jed to the lists - New York Tribune. |