Rome, Sept. 30.
The political and military pact! between Italy and France has been during the night of a new member expanded into the economic and of the Italian Royal Family, the first financial feld, thus cementing the child of the Heir Apparent and two powers in a virtual peace dicta- Crown Princess Marie-Jos¢. worship over Central Europe, it was earned to-day.
The Franco-Italian Entente was expected to be sealed within a few days as a result of an agreement by the Bank of France to underwrite largest vessel ever to have been constructed in British yards 2,000,000 lire of Tiatian " securities Was successfully launched here to-day when the Queen Mary, the Which have been seeking a market or some time. giant 73,000-ton Cunarder formerly known as "S34, slid majestically Ttalian and French statesmen down the slipway into the river Clyde. visualize the eventual inclusion of Hundreds of thousands of spectators from throughout the country '{ne Little Entente countries in the heard and witnessed Her Majesty, the Queen, christen the giant liner, /Sgreement, ths "welding together while thousands of others throughout the British Empire listened in on farmed forces aggregating 1,500,000 the ceremony which was broadcast.
His Majesty, the King, replying to the address of welcome to him, sald:—The sea with her tempests will not readily be bridled. She is stronger than man; yet in recent times, man has done much to make the struggle with her more equal.
"Tt ig still under @ hundred years since te late Mr. Samuel Cunard founded a service of small wooden paddle steamers to carry the mails Across the Atlantic.
"A few people still living must recollect in childhood hearing of those 1,150 ton ships spoken with wonder as evidence of man's mastery over nature.
"To-day we have the happy task of sending on its way the most ly ship existing."
Thanks for Alt 'His Majesty thanked all, from the most conspicuous to the most humble, who had helped to build the liner. He' recalled how her uncompleted hull had Lain in silence for three His Majesty said he rejoiced, that, withthe help of his Government, it
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