From our files: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO FIFTY YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 1 1991 OCTOBER 26 1966

A MASSIVE search of Loch Fyne for two missing teenage boys was continuing on Thursday after their six-foot dinghy was found washed up on Duncuan Island, off Ardrishaig.

Helicopters and lifeboats were searching the loch for any sign of Dutch boys Jan Van Lynden, 17, and his friend Jeremy Swartz, 16, who had been missing since 4pm on Tuesday.

Auxiliary coastguards from Dunoon, Rothesay and Tarbert and a police mountain rescue team from Dumbarton were combing the shore from Lochgilphead north to Minard and south to Port Ann. Local police and volunteers were also helping in the search.

The alarm was raised when the boys, who had been staying with Jan’s uncle Baron Van Lynden, failed to return to Otter Ferry as darkness fell. ENTRIES and attendance at Kintyre Agricultural Society’s autumn show on Friday were well up on last year’s figures.

Cattle entries alone were 20 per cent higher than last year.

The society’s president, Mr W. Hamilton, Tomaig, said afterwards that he was very pleased with the turnout at both the morning cattle show and the afternoon produce display.

Hundreds of people crowded into the Victoria Hall to examine the high quality farm produce.

They calculate that the horror of the renewal of such a struggle and the interests of neutrals would prove sufficiently powerful to make what might have begun as a temporary cessation a permanent discontinuance.

That is why the German Government is bringing to bear every influence throughout the world which German diplomacy and the far more powerful and widely extended machinery of German finance can command to obtain a truce by the intervention of the head of a neutral State.

What would be the sequel to intervention, according to the German belief? Negotiations.

Time for German troops to elaborate new and improved lines and systems of defence where the old lines have been pierced or are seriously menaced.

Growing reluctance to renew the strife.

A carefully graduated disclosure of the German resolve to remain in possession of what the Kaiser’s armies seized in 1914 and 1915.