Over 20,000 persons were admitted to Portsmouth Dockyard on Monday, when Navy Week opened. Among the visitors were Prince George and Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten and the members of their house party at Adsdean, near Chichster. Three women who visited the dockyard together had between them 17 sons serving in the Navy. More holiday makers visited, Southsea yesterday than on any' previous August Bank Holiday, and many who had neglected to book rooms had to spend the night on. the beach or in any shelter they could find. As it rained heavily many of those who slept out of doors got~ set "through. Several parties of motorists spent the night in their cars. The Navy Week visitors at at Plymouth numbered 11,568 (compared with 9,643 last! year), and at Chatham, 16,400.
Hundreds of visitors who slept on the beach at Southend on Sunday night were caught in a heavy thunderstorm, which broke over the town shortly after midnight. They were unable to get shelter, and many, drenched to the skin, stood huddled together in shop doorways id for hours. A number of them left for their homes by carly trains on Monday morning. About 10,000 holiday-makers visited Windsor Castle and most of them went over the State apartments and the Queen's Dolls' House.
Large numbers of excursionists visited Eton College, Windsor Great Park, Virginia Water, Burnham Beeches and Stoke Pages.
Twenty People Killed Although, as T mentioned above, the road traffic was Tighter than usual, there were about 20 people killed during the week-end from one cause or another; the greater int ber of victims being motor-eyelids Certainly the existing mumber of motor vehicles is increasing rapidly, since the Ministry of Transport has issued a return showing that the gross amount received for road vehicles licences during the six months ended May 81 was £21,340,- 238 compared with £20,812,028 in the corresponding period of the previous year. The total number of motor vehicles, excluding tramcars, ete,, was approximately 2,190,000, compared 2,027,000 a year previous-
There was only, one train accident) of any importance, 100 people being, Injured when two excursion trains leaving Blackpool collided about mile outside Preston shortly before midnight on Monday. One train apparently ran into the other. Traffic was very much disorganized, but none of the casualties fortunately were very serious, as both trains were going slowly.
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