"The other principal figures surrounding the Queen, or ex authority in her name, are Mr. van Beyens, the financial adviser; Vice-
All British shipbuilding and shi; repairing yards have been placed under the control of the Admiralty.
This step, announced last night, has been taken to ensure the grèatest possible output of new ships and speedy repairs.
The Parliamentary Secretary for the First Lord of the Admiralty emphasized the importance of shipping developments in an address td a conference of the Labour Party yesterday.
Last year, he said, everything depended on the production of aircraft, This year the problem was based on shipping.
Mr. Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour said that an enormous task Chief of Naval Forces in the United 4 which are doing so much io aid their British allies in their manifold tasks; and finally, Jonkheer Tjarda van Starkenborgh-Staehguwer,
ministrator, a East Indies, ole am careful es, an able and careful ad-
"Queen Wilhelmina and her Ministers continue-to-contribute in a most practical way to the ultimate, detest of Nazism wad. opinat da betar then to close my talk by reminding you of the Queen's words to her people hgd been imposed on the Navy io maintain food supplies and raw materials, and "we must call on every men in docks and shipyards or associated in shipping net fo wilt an inch."—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.