Lord Astor Speaks on Spirit of British Navy specta ro THE "com London, Feb. 17.
The original drum used by Sir Francis Drake stood in the centre of the Guildhall when 350 officers and men from the British cruisers Exeter and Ajax, which recently returned to home waters from their victorious battle against the Graf Spee, were entertained to lunch at Plymouth yesterday, Lord Astor, in proposing the health of the shi officers and company, said: "It is a strange thing, this spirit of the Navy. It is invisible, imponderable and intangible, and now we know its audacity is incred-it arma-and it is not Fleet orders.
"It is something which is nursed and nourished when we find men living close together in hourly danger of their lives,"—Reuter.
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