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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2337, 27 January 1913, Page 3

There is historical as well as prophetic warrant for expecting that the present year will be a fateful one in die history of the nations (says the “ New Zealand Times ’), It is point' ed out by a contemporary that in the past, as the 13th year of a century occurred Europe has seen a great turning point in her affairs. Four hundred years ago, 1513, saw a gallant King of Scotland and the flower of Scottish nobility perish on che stricken field of Floddea. Three hundred years ago, as the date came round, Germany was in the opening agonies of the Thirty Years’ War. Two hundred years ago, 1713, witnessed the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht which pub a period to the hard-contested war of the Spanish Succession and proved conclusively to that theatrical “ Grand Mouarque,” Louis XIV., that the Pyrenees and many other obstacles to French ambition did after all exist. One hundred years ago, 1813, saw the battle of Leipzig, and the deliverance of Europe from the iron rule of Napoi leon.