London, May 25.
slight mist seemed likely to spoil the Review at the stan, but it soon changed, and the sun shone brilliantly as the Royal Yacht passed down the Tines—which comprised.
"338-British warships, worth £15 (000,000, and seventeen foreign warships.
The guns of the big ships seemed to shake the air with the royal salute guns, fired by every. saluting ship, "British and foreign. Whit teapped sailors stood along: the ships alls, their hands joined, "Behind them flashed the gold braid of the officers' epaulettes and hats, and the white of their gloved hands, When the Royal yacht had been made fast close to the Queen Eliza Beth, the Fleet Air Arm—109 fighting, planes—roared up out of the haze, Ewooped in a salule, and roared away again.
The Press followed the Royal yacht in the Whippingham, one of {he several ships taken over for the Admiralty's guests. She was uncom= fortably crowded, and kept at least 43% miles behind the Royal yacht.
The Morat (Russia) and the Admiral Graf Spee (Germany) were moored fide by side, the Swastika and the Red fag flying within a few yards of each other. The British line was headed by the Nelson and Rodney. miralty and other British senter oft cers andthe senior officers of the seventeen foreign warships, He also Feceived representatives of the mer= chant navy and the fishing fleets, Tugs Avert Possible Accident Seamanship averted an accident among the cruisers of the reserve fleet just before the review began when two ships swinging at their an= chers were in danger of colliding. Suddenly a couple of tugs arrived. 'Tow ropes were passed, the two ships were drawn apart and' put back into alignment, The Russian battleship flew an exceptionally large white flag emblazon~ fed with the sickle and hammer and carrying abroad blue streak along is lower edge.
As the royal yacht passed the foreign ships all played the National Anthem; some were content with one verse, others went solemnly through it three times. The cheering was not unlike our own methods. The Japanese" shouted "Hurrah" three times, and. did not shout "Banzai" whilst the roar from the Gray Spee night "have been "Hech" Murrah!" Cheers from the Russian ships came in a continuous ripple as though taken up by division att division from bow to stern and then started again in the bows. The raph's" "feature lo middle page, written by. its Tokyo correspondent, was entitled "Japan's New Chinese. Policy: How British Support of China as Modified the Militarist Challenge."
"To quote from this article would bbe sending coals to Newcastle, but two sentences. may be given as. Mustrative of what Is bein put to the. British " public: sno' ehangea an ghogine Guinn eke japan Is waking to the realities a Uehee of thus is tobe found In some Srey he, pole wor In some and Mr. and Mrs. B. D. C. Wolfe. There was also, one is glad to add, a considerable number of the Chinese students in London, The students had had their own reception for Dr. Kung at China Institute' in Gower Street a few days earlier, when Dr. Kung seems to have explained to the students) thoroughly the application of jen and Wt to life in a foreign country and to have biden them take heed accordingly.
Another purely Chinese reception attended by Dr. Kung. was atthe Overseas Chinese Club in the East scholar imme" David-Noel sbout the two most powerful battleships in the work the ships of special interest presen were the very new cruisers, the Southampton and Newfeastle, the rst of ten such vessels Which have a speed of 32 knots and carry 12 six-inch guns in triple tur= Fels, There were also the Coventry Sephont ce "dragon, and Curlew, which, during the recent abe tug. 1 Have on" the mic "which saw Mediterranean emergency, were turn~ ed into anti-aircraft ships and mount ed with ten four-inch high angle guns and a complete aystem of high-angle Lard fire control. The Iron Duke, now no ivgit longer a combatant ship, but a Am: New York gave the "Ra, ra, 1a" of the universities, Princess Elizabeth was on the bridge of the Victoria and Albert until everything was over. It was her frst Visit to the Meet
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