White the rival port of Liver= pool, secure in its grip of things material, is bidding for. spiritual support ' by building Cathedrals, }Southampton, whose sanctity estab-shed over the centuries can never be in doubt, has been making itself Bloawant to! giant licers. $0. slip: ping round "the Needles up the Solent to Southampton Water the iiclight of the sulleless inhabitants big monsters appear daily to the
fof the 'Isle of Wight." In fact Southamptot: hus stolen @ march on Liverpool. "This. "now" dock—the largest of its. kind' anywhere—will give Southampton a thrill. Not the least of its immediate' benefit has been extraction from the King a pretty compliment to the en= terprise of the Southern Railway. There indeed ix real progress. In the distant pre-war days. that railway was the inspiration ribaldry
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every, median" who' "wore thing. "It they do-it may be eon werent to mote that the dock is only part of the Southern Railway's {213/000,000 improvement schemes 1 "will enclose "270,000. tons of water and the steel ealason forening the door was made at Middle borough ard" weighs 5,000. ton The dock is. 1,200 ft. long, 125 ft wide and 841" ft, deep at spring. The ceremony was a pageant in elf. The King and. Queen in their own yacht entered. the new dock; the presence of a throng of schoo! children on the Empress. of Britain familiar friend of Shanghai—Fave yours England an oppertunity of remembering n great occasion Jand of seeing for' themselves. the Vix of the industry. which a Maritime country must' necessarily guard with unceasing "vigilance. The opening of thie stoat dock itself "a happy ausury" for the future og a time when British trade with that of the rest of the world is acutely anxious. May the sunshine, which gave the day.n glory lof its own, presage a. prosperous career for King George V Dock and the Royal Borough of Southampton.
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