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66 Warships in the Mediterranean.
Sixty-six
yesterday
This is the third naval review that M. Doumergue has held dur ing his tenure of office sa Chief of the Republic, and the progress marked in the course of them is sailed with delight by lovers of the Navy in France.
REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING into a series of well found and well
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE KOBENHAVN !
CONFLICTING TALES.,
LINK WITH OLD WHALING DAYS.
Death of Hull Captain.
was
as
Paris, May '11.
A link with the old whaling vessels of war steam- An interesting letter from Mr. days has been severed
President O. Mossin, of Singapore, appear-death, at Hull, of Captain John before
by the Doumergue, under a cloudless sky ed in a recent Isue of the Straits Cook Clark, aged 68 years. De in the Bay of Algiers. while Times, in reference to the mya-ceased, à native of Hull, attended three squadrons of hydroplanes ; tery of the Kobenhavn, the Hull Trinity House as a boy. He manoeuvred in the air.
famous Danish training ship. commenced his seafaring career which vanished without trace.
It is deeply to be regretted that own, of Dundee. He sailed with on the whaling vessel Camper- The Times allowed the statements his father, the late Mr. George of Mr. Philip Lindsay, of Tristan Osborne Clark, who will be re- da Cunha, to be published without membered as having wintered at come comments from responsible Greenland in the whaling vessel quarters. The facts of the case Diana. In 1925 the review at Cher are: Immediately the East Asiatic of four years, young Clark enter- After an apprenticeship bourg is described by a French Company had reason to fear for ed the service of the Wilson Line; expert as "lamentable," so poor, the safety of Kobenhavn, it ask his first appointment eld, and ill-equipped were the led the assistance of the British third mate of the old Marengo, units taking part in it. At La Admiralty. Alfred Holt and Co., and he later became chief mate of Havre, in 1928, the Navy was and others. Everybody who was the Marengo and then gained pro- seen to have gone far ahead in asked to do so, rendered assist motion as master of the Flam- the process of
habitants of Tristan da Cunha transferred to the New York transformationance. It was then that the In-ingo. Shortly afterwards he was commanded modera quadrons, were interviewed by a passing trude, where he spent most of his small indeed if compared with steamer and claimed to have seen seafaring life. In time he became the British Navy, but to be con- the Kobenhavn. The officials of master of the Galilee, Martello, sidered seriously and capable of the East Asiatic Co., were scep- Francisco, Hindoo, Toronto and rendering sterling service to their tical from the very beginning as, Colorado. Deceased was held in en the opinion of all experts, such high esteem by the firm that Stendy Development.
As extremely unlikely that the when a new ship was going on her The review yesterday, without Kobenhavn could have passed the maiden voyage he was usually showing a change as pronounced. Island at the time stated, what put in charge of her. proved that no hait had taken lever had happened to her, but in Clark was as well-known in New Captain place in the development of the absence of any other definite York shipping circles as in Hull. France's modern fleet. The re- statements they immediately set
iew lasted two hours. during to work.
During his period as captain of Their own motorship the Marengo he had charge of a which time the fleet steamed in Mexico was sent down
ix groups between the Duquesne, out a thorough investigation and ing a blizzard, from
to carry boat which rescued the pilots, dur- the flaghsip of Admiral Descores-o other ships were chartered to pilot cutter off the American a sinking Penon, from whose bridge the co-operate with her. Every other coast. Fresident took the salute, and steamer passing these waters pro was presented with two
For this brave deed he Vice-Admiral Durand-Viel, 1 om- All In vain. the Provence, flying the flag of mised to keep an extra lookout.
gold! watches, one from the President! Several merths lat- mand of the Fleet.
of the United States and the other ar it was proved, absolutely be from the New York Harbour Pilot the inhabitanta of Tristan pond doubt, that the ship seen by Commissioners. He rescued a Cunha was a Flanish barque. So from a German steamer sinking number of crews, including one much for the theory of "The in the Atlantic, and for this was Phantom Ship." As soon as this given a pair of binocular glasses. became known, the immense or He also towed in port several dis-
for the rescue workabled steamers. was cancelled and every hope de-1916, and leaves a widow and He retired in finitely given up.
The error of judgment made by one son, the latter of whom, Mr. three children, two daughters and the inhabitants of the Island caus-John Clark, is at present an officer ed a revival of hope to all the relatives of the 67 men who werLimited,
with the R.MS.P. Company,
trading post in the disaster. It must have
to South bean a
América. terrible position, week after week, to hope against hope and then ultimatly to hear that
the review were provided by the The most impressive scenes of Suffren and the Colbert, France's latest 10,000-ton cruisers, armed
with 203-milimetre (about 8 in) guns, sister ships of the Duquesne and capable of from 33 to 96ganisation knoter the destroyers of the Verdun class that can do over 40 nots; and the 23 submarines which a naval writer to-day des cribes as "the ampart of our naval defence."
In the evening the town and Bay of Algiers were illuminated
da
CUNARD CHALLENGE the months of suspense had been quite unnecessary and were enly due to a terrible error of judgment on behalf of the island-
ATLANTIC BLUE RIBAND.
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CONSIGNEES' NOTICE
of Delhi"
Consignees of cargo ex s.8. "City are reminded to take. delivery of their goods which will be subject to rent after July 16. SOUTH CHINA FOOTBALLERS.
Malacca, July 1. interested in the news that the Sporting circles here are keenly South China footballers Singapore, are coming to Malacca now in
Such are the facts and an ex London, May 30. tensive report to this effect was The news that a new giant rublished In The Times as, in- Cunarder will be built by John deed, in most of the newspapers Brown and Company, Limited. all the world over. Now the Re- Clydebank, s given great satis- verend P. Lindsay has arrived BAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapocal shipbuilding industry has Times his letter. In view of the on July 7 and a match is being
faction on the Clyde, where the back in London and sent The
Monday. 11th August.
been for some time at low ebb. ahove I am sure you will agree arranged to be played on the 8th. with the design of winning back have been published without re-paring to accord the visitors a warm The Cunard Company is credited that the letter ought never to The Chinese Associations are pre- From Germany the blue riband of ference to the known, Indisput- welcome and a banquet is expected the Atlac now held by the able farts of the case. It is for to be given by the North Geran Lloyd and, though the same reason that I have taken Commerce.
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Friday, 18th July.'
Frkiay, 29th August.
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no details of the new ship have the liberty to send you this let.
is unofficially estimated that she tion. yet officially been announced, it ta with a request for publien-e
tonnage of i
will have a gross about 75.000, a length of 1,000 feet, with nearly two miles of deck, a speed of 80 knots, and ac- commodation for 4,000 passengers
A KING'S YACHT.
from vessel is expected to cost about
and a crew of 800. The new IN TURN PATROL SHIP AND
£8,000,000 and will take about three years to build, providing work for several thousand men
RUM-RUNNER:
vate yacht of King Edward when he was Prince of Wales, has re cently been playing the less dis tinguished role of rum-runner.
during that period. It is pointed The Yankton, formerly the pri out the new liner will need to run In conjunction with another ship of similar high speed in order to prevent disorganisation of the services, and, the interesting sug gestion is made. that, instead of building another vessel similar in M TAKEUCHI. Manager. dimensions, the Mauretania may be-reconditioned with fresh boilers and engines. Thus the famous old ship may yet regain
King Edward owned her for a the laurels which she surrendered while, and afterwards she was, ac only a few months ago after hold-quired by Sarah Bernhardt, who ing them for over twenty years.
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