The Archive · 1938

Cutty Sark as Training Ship

The Cutty Sark had a royal passage from Falmouth to Greenhithe where she is to be used as a training-ship, hundreds of thousands gathering at every vantage point to see her go by, and all up the Thames. Many re however were expressed that "The attention of the whole world is rivetted on us. We must do everything to defend the state. We trust that peace will be maintained and are firmly convinced that the Republic will finally emerge successfully from these troubled times," the Minister coneluded.—Trans-O%

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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