. Travel January 1915 . The hnrlior of Valctta THE ANCIENT ISLAND STRONGHOLD OF THEiCRUSADER KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN—VALETTA, THE EM-BATTLED NAVAL BASE OF THE ENGLISH .MEDITERRANEAN FLEET (. ii .\ k ! I S W I LLINGTON F U R I- 0 N G. F. R. G. S. A FILM of rose on the dawn-flushed battlements emphasized theblue-green of the waters lapping their base. Britains mod-ern battleships here and there silhouetted in ponderous masses of violet shadow seemed strangely in keeping with these ancient ram-parts ranging above them. A poem of romance in actuality—such was Valetta, Maltas capital. Battled over, bar
. Travel January 1915 . The hnrlior of Valctta THE ANCIENT ISLAND STRONGHOLD OF THEiCRUSADER KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN—VALETTA, THE EM-BATTLED NAVAL BASE OF THE ENGLISH .MEDITERRANEAN FLEET (. ii .\ k ! I S W I LLINGTON F U R I- 0 N G. F. R. G. S. A FILM of rose on the dawn-flushed battlements emphasized theblue-green of the waters lapping their base. Britains mod-ern battleships here and there silhouetted in ponderous masses of violet shadow seemed strangely in keeping with these ancient ram-parts ranging above them. A poem of romance in actuality—such was Valetta, Maltas capital. Battled over, bartered hack and forth by Mediterranean nations,demoralized and again rebuilt by Pagan, Christian and Moslem, tin-Maltese Islands (Malta. Gozzo, Comino, Cominotto and Filfia), likeGibraltar, are to-day a crown colony of a nation not one fool oiwhose native soil borders the Midland Sea. From Gibraltar, Britaincontrols the entrance to the western half of the Mediterranean, fromMalta the entrance to the eastern half. The
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