London, May 35.
'The First Lord of the' Admiraliy, Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, stated in the House of Commons to-day that, the Jubilee celebrations are essentially domestic in character, no foreign nations have been invited to send ships to represent them at the aval review to be held at Spithead July.
ig also announced that 291 off cers of the Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve had volunteered to take part in the review, and most of these will probably do so, Approximately 300 reservists and pensioners will also be ted to take part. Participation in all ease will be enurely voluntary.
In accordance with the plan, 22 ships of the Home Fleet, which' are paying a week's visit to the Thames, took up their temporary stations in the river estuary to-day—Wireless through Reuter.
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