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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 15, 3 August 1888, Page 13

The English invasion scare does not find an echo m this defenceless country. Any nation intending to invade the Doited States could easily raise vessels enough to transport 100,000 men, but they all realise that it woald need a much smaller fleet to carry back the survivors — Pilot. The German Minister of Worship has approved the statutes of the German Institute of Rome, which has been founded for the pursuit ot scientific researches into the history of Germany in the archives and libraries of Rome and of other Italian cities. Thu historical centre is directed immediately by a commission of three members chosen from the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin, who are obliged to present an annual summary of their work. The value of this institution, at a time when the Vatican archives have been so generously thrown opan to students, is of the greatest. Beveral other nations, in one way or another, draw immense advantage from present opportunities in Rome. Many a question associated with American history might be resolved by a study of Vatican documents.