During recent weeks the Na has been "at home" to the British public at Devonport, Chatham, and Portsmouth. Chatham week Jjust over and the other two are jin fall swing. Many complaints have appeared recently in the press that the Navy does not do enough in the way of publicity and it has been suggested that it ought to do something in the nature of the Aldershot Tattoo to please the and raise funds for its Of course, a Naval Resw might be held' every year, but the expense would be prohibi ive-and a Naval Review is apt to be rather a bombastic gesture. in these days of Kellogg Pacts.
So at present the Navy contents self with these Navy Weeks at the home ports and, while they are not yet really satisfactory as shows and do not attract a great number of people from London and other parts of the country, there has been a tendency to condescend to public taste to a much greater extent. At Devonport, for instance, demonstrations of "torpedo and depth-charge firing are being given. HLM.S. Exeter, our latest cruiser, is on view, and #0 also is H.M.S, Glorious, our latest aircraft carrier, though the Intter cannot be boarded. Three "I". class subs marines can be inspected and naval divers can be watched xk work. The flying-bouts which flew to Singapore are also on view and moored alongside the. dockyard wall are the Rodney, Renown, and: Benbow, all of which the public may explore from masthead double-bottoms. The Ramillies hag been docked and the inquisitive public are to be allowed to ° walla ight under her bottom, to inspect her propellers and rudder.
All this is a move in the right direction, but unfortunately not enough publicity is yet given- td what, fs undoubtedly" just as fos mating 'a show as any military, tattoo, When people even till Jearn just what wonderful toys a ships of our modern Navy, they, will flock to Devonport, Chatham thousands. i and Portsmouth in hundreds of
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