WAR OFFICE VANDALISM
SHAKESPEARE'S CUFF THREATENED.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received July 31st, 9.44 a-m.) LONDON, July 30. The War Office having proposed to remove the crest of Shakespeare's Cliff, as __terfei_g with the range ol the new battery, -he Dover Corporation is protesting against such vandalism. Shakespeare Cliff' is a chalk cliff, a mile west of Dover pier, so-calied from being identical with the cliff referred to in Act IV., Scene 1, of Shakespeare's "King Lear:"-— "There is a cliff wihose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep."
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11340, 1 August 1902, Page 5
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