15 MAY 1926, Page 2

In spite of the provocation the temper of the nation

was throughout amazingly good. There were outbursts of rioting by the strikers or independent hooligans ; but, taken throughout the country, the blemishes upon the record of orderliness were surprisingly few. In hardly any other country, we should think, would it V be possible for a move which is revolutionary in essence to be met by the public with such patience. The rally] of the nation to its own defence was most inspiring. It made one feel proud. Napier, in his history of the Peninsular War, wrote of the majesty with which the British soldiers fought ; but was there not a similar majesty in the bearing of the citizen towards his troubles ? • •