To be Used as Training Ship by the Admiralty London, Aug: 21, The liner Majestic (80,881" tons), former flagship of the White Star line, which was due to leave Southampton next month for Tyne to be broken up, has been saved at the eleventh hour. She has been purchased by the Admiralty as a tealning ship. Blucjaekets and naval elt cles are very pleased, and. declare that she is a very beautiful ship which Reeds little alteration except for the removal of her luxury cabins, was definitely established to-day that five "C" class cruisers which Mr, Winston Churchill "and others strove, during the last session of Parliament, to save from scrapping under the London Naval Treaty, wilt be broken up at the end of the year, The Admiralty, it is stated, consider that these five cruisers are not worth the cost of modernizing. and of the opinion that It will be more seonomieal to build new ships
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.