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The Services
ROYAL NAVY
RETURN OF THE BERWICK
'The cruiser Berwick, Captain E. R. Bent, D.S.C., is ordered to leave the China Station on May 31 for Devonport to pay off and subse- quently to undergo large repairs at Chatham. A sum of £195.100 to- wards the cost of these is included in the new Navy Estimates:
The Berwick has left Hong Kong for Singapore, where she will be from April 27 until May 5, when she goes to Penang to represent
the Navy at the local observance of the Coronation. She has served in China since her completion in 1928.
LAUNCH OF THE PLOVER H.M.S. Plover will be launched by William Denny and Brothers. Limited Dumbarton. on June 8. The Plover is to be a tender to the Mining School, and is being built under the 1935 construction pro- gramme at an estimated cost of
ed in September next.
CRUISER FOR RESERVE
The cruiser Dunedin will pay off into reserve at Portsmouth on April
STIRRING APPEAL BY
PRIME MINISTER
Coal Strike Debate Adjourned
London, May 3. hamshire half-a-million miners were prepared to face hardship and loss in behalf of the principle of recognition. The matter called for the full attention of the Gov- ernment and the exercise of states- manship of a very high degree
In what he evidently regarded, and the Press has signalised, as his last big speech in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister, intervening early in the debate on the threatened National Coal Strike, made an eloquent appeal for a peaceful 'settlement.
Mr. Baldwin assured the House that the Government were not in- different to what was happening, and he has been in daily touch with the Mines Minister for a long time. The present dispute called for delicate and sympathetic hand- ling, but he was not without hope that reason would prevail because there was a feeling throughout the country that the issue was so re- duced that it ought not to be al- lowed to lead to a strike.
The whole world had its eyes on
£112,808. She should be complet London where it was represented, for the rejoicings associated with the age-old ceremony of the Coro- nation so near at hand. In the Abbey a week to-day, the young King and his Queen, called sun- denly and unexpectedly to the most tremendous position on earth, would kneel to dedicate themselves to the service of their people which would end only with death:
30, at standard notice. The Dune- din returned on March 29 from service in the New Zealand Divi- sion, where her place is being taken, after the Coronation Review by H.M.S. Leander.'
PAYMASTER SUB-LIEUTENANTS
He appealed to the handful of men on both sides, with whom the The following officers passed the peace of the Harworth Colliery examination for the rank of pay-dispute rested, to do the thing master sub-Beutenant held in January
1st Class Certificate.-W. C.
Grant-Dalton.
2nd Class.-G. H. L. Kitson, H. M. de B. Lipscomb, J. P. K. Hark- ness, N. E. Summers, E. D. Price, J. G. Phillips, R. H. Garwood, R. D. M. W. Thomas-Ferrand, G. S. Bucknall, and J, G. West. 3rd Class.-P. C. Eliot.
CADETS' SEA TRAINING HMS. Frobisher, Captain E. J. Spooner, D.S.O.. cadet training
cruiser, will leave Chatham on May 6 for her summer cruise, which, as In previous 'years, will be to ports:
in Northern Europe. She is first
to take part in the Coronation Naval Review, and will leave Spit head on May 22 for Rosyth, re- maining there from May 24 to June 7. The Frobisher is due back at Portsmouth on July 26.
NEW PATROL VESSEL
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The Mines Secretary. Captai Crookshank, gave an account of the dispute and negotiations upon which he been engaged with both parties. He was meeting the Mine- workers' Federation executive again to-morrow, and his good of- fices were still at the service of either side, to help all concerned to reach an agreement; honourable to all parties.- British Wireleza.
APPEAL FOR PEACE
London, May 3. What was probably Mr. Stanley Baldwin's last speech in the House of Commons was delivered by the
Prime Minister this afternoon. And its 'chlef characteristic was 1ts appeal for peace-Industrial peace in Britain.
Major R. C. Attlee, the Labour Opposition leader, had drawn, at tention to the possibility of a coal strike which he assumed would curtall the Parliamentary Whitsun recess.
Mr. Baldwin, in a homily, stress- ed the responsibility of leaders under the democratic system at which" totalitarian nations "scoffed. which would rejoice the hearts of The mining dispute, he said, re- all-to dissipate the dark cloudquired the most delicate and sym- that the threatened strike held pathetic handling and there would
world that British democracy knew over the country, and to show the have to be some face-saving.
how to practice the acts of peace In this world of strife:
GREAT IMPRESSION.
Prime Minister's appeal made
a great impression in the House and produced a dramatic effect. After a statement by the Mines' Secretary, Mr. Tom Wil- the whole world's eyes were focus- Valley and himself an ex-Minister, Prime Minister, in moving terms, Hams, Labour member for Don sed on London at this time, the
The
rose and said that he had Dre-
The bulk of the world admired the way Britain fought through the ecofiomie blizzard as being a great testimony that democracy was really functioning by settling diff- culties in a manner which was far harder than fighting.
After pointing out the meaning of the Coronation and the fact that
pared a speech but after Mr. Bald-appealed to the handful of men with whom Industrial peace rests win's appeal he saw no purpose in
to help to dissipate the dark clouds continuing the debate. He said and show the world that this de- that if the response to the appeal mocracy can still practice the arts of peace in a world strife. (Loud
was
what it ought to be. Har worth would quickly settle down.to the happy conditions which obtain- ed at Hentley where the same
H.M.S. Kittiwake will commission Company owned a collfery, and for
on April 29 at the works of Messrs. Thornycroft and Co.. Southampton, and will leave the same day for Chatham, where she is due to com- plete to full crew on May 1 to re- Heve the War-bullt patrol craft No. 74 in the 1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla. She will leave Chatham for Portland to take up her new duties on May 13. The Kittiwake Is the fourth of the new patrul. vessels (originally called coastal sloops) of the Kingfisher type. Her sistership the Sheldrake, also building by Messrs. Thornycroft, should follow her into service in about two months' time.
ENGINEER 'CAPTAIN WEEKS
Engineer Commander D. J. Weeks has been placed on the re- tired list with the rank of engineer captain, after nearly 20 years' com- missioned service.
FIRST COURT OF THE REIGN
· London, May 3. Scenes of splendour were wit nessed at Buckingham Palace to- day, when their Majesties the King and Queen held the first Court of their reign.
Nearly two hundred debutante» made their curtsies in the great white and gold Throne Room, where the King, wearing the full dress scarlet and gold uniform of a Field Marshal, had the Queen at bis side.
em-
The Queen was dressed in # gown of deep golden brocade of small scroll design, with broldered train., Bet on her black hair was a magnificent tiara of diamonds, and rubles. She also wore a necklace of diamonds.
The Duke and Duchess of Glou- cester stood behind the King and Queen in the royal circle, which also included the Princess Royal, Princess Helena Victoria and Prin- cess Marie Louise.- Reuter's Bulletin Service,
Berlin, May 5. Chancellor Hitler had a lengthy talk with Lord Lothian who is at present on a visit in Berlin-Pro- fessor Bonnard of the French Academy, has also been received by Chancellor Hitler.— Trantorean: News" Bervite,
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Following this appeal, the Oppo "sition Labourite, Mr. Tom Williams, said it would be folly to continue bad the debate in view of the Prime Minister's exhortation, which he
"I hope the response to this regarded яв the maximum any noteworthy appeal of the Prime Government could do without dell- Minister will be real and will re-berately coercing one side, or the sult in the avoidance of a nation- al dispute."
other.
It was the general feeling, Mr. William went on, that the least sald now the better.
He hoped the response to the Government's appeal would be real and avert a widespread stoppage of work.
The debate then adjourned.---
The debate was then adjourned and the House rose at 6 o'clock
ACTION URGED
Attlee asked
Opening the debate, Major C.
the Government to bring every possible lafuence to bear to settle the dispute and sug-Reuter. gested that if the strike occurred on May 22, the House should be called together in advance of the re-assembly date which is May 24. He said that although the Immedi- ate issue concerned only a workers in one village, in Notting
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BRITISH WARSHIPS FOR BARCELONA
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and most harbour build- ings. Transocean News Service.
DANZIG BILL
Danzig, May 5. The Danzig Diet passed, by 47 to 20 votes, a draft of a bill ex- tending the Empowering Act of 1933 for a further period of 4 years. As the voting showed a two-thirds majority, the bill receives full con- stitutional value. Apart from the Social Democrats and the Com munists, the Catholic Centre Party and two Polish deputies voted against the bill. Transocean News Service.
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