CARELESS ABOUT NELSON.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14222, 9 December 1911, Page 9

CARELESS ABOUT NELSON.

Last Saturday was Trafalgar' Day (wrote the Sydney "Daily Telegraph's" . correspondent), and, as usual, tho Nelson monument was decorated, a tew speechos mado by tho Navy League and other patriotic bodies, and a little space given up in each of the newspapers to the commemoration of the greatest fight fought by England's greatest sea captain. It was strange to notice, however, how carelessly tho day was passed over by the public. Ono might have thought that at a moment , of great international strain 'there would havo been somo thought "of tho hero of Trafalgar in every household . in tho Kingdom. But, on tho oontrarv, very few people indeed wore aware of .. tho anniversary. That night I was present at one of tho largest music-' , halls, and, during the interval the orchestra played "The Death of Nelson." Ono would not havo been surprised had tbo houso stood up and engaged in singing and cheering. But none took tho slightest notice A piotur© of the Kmg; or of Lord Roberts or Lord Kitchener upon a lantern sheet, never fails to awaken some little demonstration. - For Nelson shot to death in saving his , country a hundred years ago, there is but scanty thought. Perhaps the colonial appreciates tho" memory of Nelson inoro oven than do the dwellors in die parent country. Had the English flcec gone to destruction at Trafalgar, England might still have been saved. But it is almost certain that Australia, together with tho rest of the British colonies at that time, would havo gone under foreign control.