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HERE, THERE
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Alfonso Says "No"
THE
ROMANCE OF
KING'S YACHT
BRITANNIA CAN STILL, RULE THE WAVES
A Spaniard, who holds a high STANDS ALONE AFTER 41 YEARS
position in monarchist circles,
states that ex-King Alfonso has notified his friends privately that
in no
circumstances, will he ra-
all
(By Anthony Heckstall Smith.)
t
send bis throne is accompanied Onur rating, yachts the most ter uhe War had struck the sport a
Steps are already being taken to tachfeve this end.
by a wish that the various Royalist | Britannia. She was built for King The King saved the sport in 1920 and by once more fitting out his famous factions should unite and recognise Edward forty-one year ago, Prince Juan of Asturias as the vet she is still competing success-old cutter in racing trim. Other sole claimant.
fully with the most modera yachts. sportsmen followed this example, Britannia's rig has been modern-and so began the great revival. built nised and brought up to date, but Large racing yachts were From the monarchist point of her hull is the hull that the late G. again, and the ring of the ship...".
L. Watson, view the move is a wise one.
the famous Scottish wright's hammer, long Bilent, onon again through the Prince Juan, who is in the Bri-naval architect, designed for King echoed tish Navy, is physically and men Edward, then Prince of Wales, in yacht yards all round the coast.
Britannia saved the day. With. tally the fittest of the ex-King's the year 1893.
Probably no yacht has had a her racing flag, bearing the Prince He stands a far better chance more romantic carcer than the of Wales's feathers, fluttering at than his father, the prospect of "old Britty," as the sailormen call her masthead the old vessel seemed whose return gives rise to misgiv- her. I have before me as I write ridiculously young in spite of her ings
a Glasgow news-27 years, and yet not a single plank eveb among monarchista cutting from sympathisers.
paper published more than thirty or frame in. her hull had been. years ago. It is headed. "The renewed since the day she was built t Britannia to be Sold by Auction- it was not until she had reached. The End of a Famous Yacht." This her thirtieth year that. Britannia.. Attempts to evade the new Eng-cutting tells how, after Britannia under the supervision of Mr. J. R. lsh law prohibiting the sale of was sold to Mr. Ernest Terah Barnett, the present head of the caged song-birds will probably Tooley, she changed hands several firm of G. L. Watson and Company, take the form of describing the times without after having her was thoroughly over-hauled. Even birds as foreign.
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The China Mail
Hong Kong, Friday, June 22, 1934. sound finance.
Canada's Strides To
Recovery.
Flying For Pleasure.
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•
Caged Birds Racket
sails set.
It requires an expert ornitholo- The atory of how Mr. Hooley)<hupe-or design of thể hull, but gist to refute a dealer's assertion came to be the owner of Britannia rany repairs were carried out to that the bird he is offering for sale is in itself rather remarkable. Itiner construction.
is a German ballfiuch or a Siberian tells how he walked into a yacht siskin.
agent's office in London and said,
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•
The Masterpiece Market
Many Different Owners
Keeping lu Fashion
Several times since she was The relevant clause in the Bill"I want a yacht." The agent re- rends: "A species shall he deem-plied, "Well, I have one belonging launched the old Britannia has un- ed to be British if, and only if, it to the Prince of Wales" "Very dergone changes of rig so that, like a is a species resident in or visiting well returned Hooley; "I will lady of fashion, she might conform with the mode of the moment. To- sensational departures from tra-
buy her." ditional policy, but has been Great Britain in a wild state."
The wording here is providential- But the story goes that when day her rig is almost as modern as the latest America Cup solidly based on hard, work and
ly loose.
Britannia's new owner found that that of All bullfinches, of whatever na- she had not got a funnel he was challenger Endeavour, and her mast
is the highest in the Big Class. the tionality, belong to same so disgusted that he never even.
She is as fast, If not faster, species. To sell a bullfinch from Atted her out, and gave instruc- Bavaria is, therefore, technically tions that she was to be placed on than the day she was built, and her hull is as sound as a bell, Last Civil aircraft in Britain areas illegal as to sell one from the sale list again.
summer
at Traced aboard her increasing in number, though Berkshire.
Babbacombe. Our rivals were What looked like a loophole is, in
season, The present economic condi. slowly; further pilots qualify,
Be that as it may the tact re- Velsheda, in her first. tlons in Canada, is a heartening and a few buy machines of their fact, a blind alley.
mains that between 1897 and 1899 Shamrock V., thrée years, old, and addition to the recent evidence of own; but considering the possi-
Britannis changed hands no fewer Astra, five years old, and we out bilities, the advance is small. Improvement in Australia, in Even admitting the greater po-1
than five times. She was bought salled them all in half a sale of South Africa and in India. The palation and greater area of the The annual report of the Na-by John Lawson Johnston in 1897, wird.
Bir Philip Huuloke, who has Empire, as a whole, is out of the United Stater, it is remarkable tienal Art Collections Fund states sold to Martin Diederich Bucker in depths. How rapid is the ad- vance is well illustrated in the that there should be 8,780 civil that in the 50 years of its existence April 1898, mortgaged to the Bri- been Britannia's helmsman ever machines licensed there, and less the fund has secured for the na-tish Marine Trust, Ltd, of Fen-since she was recommissioned for news that the Australian re than 1,000 in Britain. People tion 902 works of art. Fifty-two court, Frenchurch-avenue, in the racing in 1913, declared that that venue this year is already better who would not have regarded a were acquired last year
Jasme month of the same year, and was the greatest race he had ever by £3,000,000 than was calculat- car as a luxury within the past The most costly purchase was three months later she was bought sailed. At times the old ship ed when the last Budget was.
painting by Daniel Cooper and registered in must have been travelling at more ten years still look on a light the
than 14 knots. It was a thrilling framed. Figures such as these justify optimism
the seroplane, which costs no more called "The Mass of St. Giles." It bis name. to 23
dis-experience and, a grand victory. In August 1898 she was than a medium-size car when is by an unknown Afteenth-century: future.
In Canada every one of the or-new, and less when second-hand, Flemish master. It cost £10,000 charged of mortgage of the British dinary tests of well-being shows something fantastically be and was presented to the National Marine Trust, and in the spring of that the King, who is much a keen
yond their means.
Gallery.
the following year she was bought yachtsman, does, not build a new the Dominion making rapid re-
The reason which restrains The Ashmolean Museum at Ox-once more by her orginal owner, and more modern yacht. The an covery. Foreign trade in the first nearly half of the pilots who have ford received a £3000 painting by the Prince of Wales. But the swer. I think, is to be found in history of Britannia. four months of the present year learned to fly within the past Piero di Cosimo. The National Prince kept her for only a year this short is nearly 50 per cent. better than three years from renewing their Gallery of Canada obtained a pic and then sold her to Sir Richard She is the most famous yacht ever in the corresponding period of licences is perhaps the lack of ture of "Job in Hia Misery," by Williams-Bulkeles, the present built, not simply on account of her 1933. The Customs and Excise time oftener than the lack of Rembrandt's friend Jan Llovens commodore of the Royal Yacht illustrious ownership, but because revenues for April were almost
money. Even in the most for- The most famous of the fund's Squadron, who on becoming her ber beautiful lines are unbeatable $12,000,000 in excess of those of tunate cities aerodromes and other purchases during the year owner converted her into a cruis- even to-day, April last year.
(Continued on Page 21). In the reports Aying clubs are not as near as a was the eighth-century Monymusking yacht by cutting down her salla of the greater business corpora lock-up garage, and the road may reliquary. It has gone to the Edin- and spara. tions the profits earned in the well be crowded just on those burgh Museum. past twelve months have been
fifteenth-century
Your Daily Smile!
to be cancelled.
Pronations,"
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In 1901 the Prince of Wales, by
then King Edward, again bought back "Britannia, but, oddly enough, no bill of sale was produced, and
I am sometimes asked why it in
PAPAL DAY ON
SUNDAY
Feast Celebrated Every Year.
a persons who became possessed of XI, who now all the Chair of
or, as far as one can tell, even set to whom the charge was given~; the yacht ever commissioned her, Peter, and is the successor to him foot aboard her, with the exception "Feed My sheep."
of Sir Richard Williants-Bulkeley.
greater by 75 per cent. than in long, fine days which would tempt out the would-be pliot, the previous year. The improve But a possible reason is that y ment, of which these figures re- cord the early fruits, began ining has, paradoxically enough. A young commercial traveller had thus officially the yacht was still February, 1983, and has been become too easy: that there is been sent to the Orkney Islands on the property of Sir Richard. In great11910 Sir Richard wrote to the Bo- steady in the interval. Canada insufficient experiment; and that business. During his stay a is not yet back to the level of the mechanically minded aviator storm arose, and owing to rough seas
that while in the "Mercantile Navy 1929, which year has now become is not allowed to tinker with his the boat service to the mainland had gistrar in Glasgow pointing out
machine.
The young man immediately wired List" Britannia was still shown as On Sunday the Catholics of the goal of the world's effort, but
The Air Ministry is at any rate to his firm in Aberdeen.
belonging to him she was really Hong Kong will. celebrate Papal it has regained 37 per cent. of keen to increase the air-minded- "Marooned by storm. Wire instruc the property of his Majesty King Day, the trade that was lost between
George.V.
This Feast is celebrated each The reply came back: that year and the onset of betterness of the population.
Steps were immediately taken to year all over the Catholic world times,
"Start summer holidays as from The stimulus that has genda for the increase of civilian
rectify the mistake and on March it. is a day which is set aside as been given to business in the flying awakens the suspicions of yesterday.""
11, 1911, Britannia was registered a mark of respect and, reverence United States by the large, ex- many worthy people, who ima
THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
in the King's name. None of those for the Holy Father the Pope, Plus penditure of the Government gine that every pilot is being there has had its effect on the trained as a bomber for a future
A wife may buy something for Canadian situation in a growth.war. In Britain, at any rate, particularly, of the export of the training of pilots is mainly song--but it is the husband who
for their own pleasure and for provides the notes. Given Canadian farm produce. good harvests, of which there is the maintenance of the British ample promise, Canada should aircraft industry, whose custom-
The War And After close the present year withere are not all warlike. It does
When the King first fitted out marked achievement and sub-no harm, however, to suggest band for maintainence. After hear-
that there are emergencies in ing both sides of the case, the magis-his father's cutter again: he used stantial hope.
trates consulted. Presently the chair- Whatever policy may be an- which a supply of trained pilots man of the Bench addressed Donovan. her purely for cruising,, and in
"We have decided," he said, "to 1911 she had bulwarks, two feet in Kowloon Traffic Offences nounced for the United States it may be useful to any country, can affect in only a minor degree and the fact that such men exist allow your wife ten shillings week." height fitted round her decks..
·In 1918 and 1914 Britannia was
Mr. C. S. Rosselet, Secretary of in civil life may lessen rather Donovan bearned back at him, and the progress of the Dominion, than increase the needs of serial said: "Why, ahure, and that's very racing again, and then came that
Hong Kong Amusements, was fined which has been the outcome of al
generous of you, I'll see if I can add
fatal August when, just as the 10 by Mr. E. Wynne Jones at armaments. S
bob or two now and again.” real Improvement in all the fac-
greet yachting fleet was gathering the Kowloon Magistracy. this tors of trade. This is more ob- viously true of Canada, and of
Jawns of the Royal Yacht Squa-morning, for travelling at $2 Australia than of South Africa,
Some men are born to troubles dron were already crowded: Warm.p.h. In the controlled area whose almost dramatic, recovery DOCKYARD WORKER'S LAPSE
But an end to yachting, Nathan Road at 11.45 am. is due to the possession of gold
After four years. Cowen Week June 2 A fine of $25, in default six weeke'
Lincs. Private Fined.. deposits, although the increased
came round again, but it was 'L' yield from these is enabling the hard labour, was imposed on Yau agricultural resources of the Sun, an employee of the Royal The subject of their talk was music affair, Only a handful of yachts Fines totalling: £80 were impon- fay anchored in the Roadstead, and ed on Pte, Shord, of the Lincoln- country to be developed The Naval Dockyard, by Mr. EW. "I must admit that my daughter's advance of the Dominions is Hamilton, at the Central Magistracy music has brought a fortune to me the basket chairs beneath the shire Regiment, by Mr. E. J. abady trees on the Squadron lawn Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon parallel with that of the Mother this morning, for the theft, of a skid Mr. Bubbabs,
friend with were nearly empty. Yachting, Magistracy this morning, for- ride
VERY GENEROUS Donovan's wife was suing her hus
*TROUBLE
others are married to it.
'MONEY IN MUSIC
leasons.
at Cowes for the "Week" and the
sad
TWO EUROPEANS SUMMONED.
in
on
Country, and it is matter for con- quantity of solder from the Dock Really replied his
astonishment. gratulation that the notable mea yard. It was stated that accused To continued Subbube; "it has people told one another, was dead, ing motor cycle. No, 74, without a sure of progress already attain had been employed there for the enabled me to buy the houses of my and it was difficult to believe that driving license and for driving
an unlicensed umchines," they were not rigi ed had in "no case been due to past 12 years.
ndghbours at about tilf price,