PRINCE ANGERED.
OUTRAGE AT RUNNYMEDE. MEMORIAL DESECRATED. ■m . LONDON. July 19. "It's a blackguardly thing. I am very sorry it has happened," said the Prince of Wales, indignantly denouncing an outrage at Runnymede, where the Great Charter of British liberty was wrung from an English monarch in 1215.
The Princes had been told by Lord Zetland that the commemoration _ pillars of the caretakers' cottages erected at Runnymede had been sprayed with creosote, apparently by objectors to the scheme by which the.historic Meadows where Magna Carta was signed have been presented to the nation by Lady Fairhaven in memory of her husband. • j
Local opponents protested against the erection of the buildings as a desecration. The authorities fruitlessly tried to obliterate the stains and when they failed they rushed evergreens to the spot to hide the blemishes in readiness for the unveiling of the pillars. The Prince spoke of Lady Fairhaven'B gift to presorve the countryside.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21239, 20 July 1932, Page 11
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