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KING REVIEWS
HIS FLEET
Over A Million Watch Ceremony
London, May, 20.
ANGLO-CHINESE POLICE CHIEF'S
FRIENDSHIP Discussion At The Foreign Office
REPORT Teaching The Public Road Sense
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HERE
London, May 20. London, May 20. From the shores and heights of
The annual report of the Chief the Isle of Wight and the main-at the Foreign Office to-day, Dr. Game, contains some interesting The Foreign Secretary received Commissioner of Police, Sir Philip land; and on the decks of liners. H. Kung, special representative comments on road safety problems, and pleasure craft of all sorts and of China at the Coronation, who as the information collected by sizes, crowds, estimated at over a
Was accompanied by the Chinese the Police Force and the analysis millon persons, watched the King Ambassador. Like its predecessors of the accidents bears upon them. review his Fleet at Spithead this in series of interviews which Mr. Of the 35,815 road accidents' in Eden has had during the corona- Soon after 3 o'clock, to a Royalton visit of foreign statesmen, to-volving death or lafury, just under the six-month period of 1936 in- Salute fired from all the ships, the
day's conversation gave a valuable half of the number occurred at opportunity for cordial discussion road-crossing or junctions and the on relations between the two coun-significant fact emerges that. 40.7 tries and the aspects of the gener- per cent occurred an uncontrolled interesting them. al International situation chiefly junctions whereas only 8.4 per cent (occurred at junctions controlled by
the police or automatic signals.
afternoon.
entered, the review area and be-
Royal yacht, Victoria and Albert, gan a twelve miles cruise past the lines of warships the decks of which were manned with blue and white clad ships' companies, which
It is understood assembled on the Bridge. At 5
there was an o'clock the Royal Yacht had anish-tion in the Far East as more en- agreement regarding the situa- ed its cruise and it took up its couraging and
In this connection Mr. Eden was able to repent the 35surance that any efforts which H's Majesty's Government might be in a position to make to further the improvement in International relations in the Far East, would take full account of the interests of all nations concerned.- British Wireless.
mooring at the head of the fleet. The flypast of the feet alrarm followed:
After this morning's reception of the Board of Admiralty and Bri- tish and foreign naval officers, the King, accompanied by the Queen, tuok Princess Elizabeth on a sur- prise, visit to Nelson's flagship, the
Victory.--
British Wireless.
ROAR OF GUNS
•
That fact, and also the state-" ment that of the pedestrains in- | pred 76.4 per cent were themselves to blame, according to the evidence of the witnesses for the accidents in which they were involved, lend point to Sir Philip's conclusion that the crux of the whole problem is how to improve road sense, care and consideration among all
classes of road-users.
INACCURATE REPORTS
ASSURANCES REPEATED"
In the other section of his re- London:-Reuter learns that Mr. port. the Commissioner. calls at- Anthony Eden and Dr. H. H. Kung
tention to the misleading conse- had a long conversation and bothing, especially where political de- quences of careless news report-
of them noted with satisfaction ductions may be made either at the friendly Sino-British relations, and as far as the general situation encouraging. Mr. Eden repeated was concerned, found the outlook
the assurances that every effort Britain might be ti a position to make to further the improvement in the Far Eastern situation would all the nations concerned. be done to take into full account
MUCH DISCUSSION
AND CHEERS.
London: The Royal Yacht left Its berth at 12.15 pm. The King was on the bridge, accompanied by the Queen who was wearing sun- glasses and Princess Elizabeth, barcheaded and smiling gleefully The Queen and the Princess waved to the cheering thousands ashore, while the King continually raised his white-gloved hand to his Ad- miral's hat in salute. The roar of the guns mingled with cheers us the Victoria and Albert entered the lines of the Fleet, passing between the battleship. Queen Elizabethence la expected to get into closer were walled with blue and white -clad figures of the ship's company as they manned ship with arms linked, and as the Royal Yacht drew away from the Queen Etza- beth and the London, the white caps of the sailors on board those ships flashed above their heads and their lusty cheers echoed over the water while the ships' bands played the National Anthem...
Dwarfed by the great steel walls of the Barham, Hood and Repulse, the Victoria and Albert steamed down the armour-clad lanes, pass-
It is probable that Mr. Eden was particularly anxious for the con- versation as the Imperial Confer-
grips to-morrow on foreign affairs, and in view of Mr. Lyons' Far Eas- tem Conference suggestion.
Far Eastern matters have been subject to much discussion in Lon- don recently. Japanese experts have been in 'frequent consultation with the British Government on Arglo-Japanese relations they have probably also discussed the Japanese-German anti-Comin- tem agreement Reuter.
and
ing the old Iron Duke which is HOMES WANTED FOR
now
a trainingship, passing the air-craft carriers, submarines, cruisers and destroyers, the cheers.
-4,000 CHILDREN
London, May 20. The latest effort on her
of the many
of each ship's company waxing and waring as she steamed twelve mile journey -- Reuter.
VAST CROWD
London: The biggest crowd in the history of Portsmouth flocked to the sea front to witness the grand illumination of the Fleet last night, a jostling mass of peo- ple struggled to 'gain vantage points on the beach and on monu- ments and huts lining" the pro- menade..
made in Britain in the past 10 months to lend humanitarian as- elstance to victims of the Spanish civil war in a spirit of complete neutrality, is taxing to the utmost the ingenuity and resources of the British National Joint Committee for Spanish relief.
About four thousand Basque chlidren refugees from Bilbao have to be found temporary homes from Saturday or Sunday when they are In the distance the luminated due to arrive at Southampton. portholes of the yacht. Victoria Many of the children will go into
and Albert, showed Their Majes-shelter in homes of sympathisers. eamp. Others have been offered tles the King and Queen enter- tained at dinner the Commander- in-Chief and Flag Officer of the Home and Mediterranean Fleets.
After dinner Their Majesties and other members of the Royal Family went on deck and watched one of the most impressive sights in modern history.
At 10 p.m. red, white and blue rockets went up from the royal yacht, and as it by magic a phan- tom fleet became outlined in gt- tering lines of light, extending to the horizon.
and a generous donor has put a large country house at the disposal of the organisers for the purpose woollen bunting used in the Coro- of a hostel. Some of the heavy" nation decoration will be utilized to British Wireless. make blankets for the refugees.—
BATTLE FOR BILBAO
Bilbao, May 21. While the battle for Bilbao rages. On a seven-mile front, 4,200 Bas- que children embarked in the Spanish Uner Habana for Sou-
Later the lights were all turned thampton to-day. Thousands of out, the ships completely darken-adults stood in the pouring rain as ed, and after a few seconds of this seven special trains conveyed the blinding blackness.
children to the dockside, where searchlights flashed skywards from all direc-parents waved tearful but uncom tions, the hundreds of beams from plaining farewells, Fifteen priests the combined ficets played over accompanied the children. the scene and patterned the sky. -Reuter.
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NO SYMPATHETIC 'WALK-OUT”
Meanwhile, the Insurgents claim to have advanced to an average depth of two and a half miles on a seven mile slanting front, be- tween the coast and Mungula, but according to a Basque military re- port Munguia still holds out after. two days of severe battering by. rebel guns. Rester..
"WHITE BOOK" FOR THE LEAGUE
Valencia, May 21.
London, May 20. The Delegate Conference of the London - tramwaymen which met to-day to consider the question of a sympathetic strike acting in sup- port of the Central London Omni- bus
decided men unanimously against any unofficial "action while pledging itself to carry out any recommendaton by the Executive of the Transport and General Wore kers Union. The Union executive has consistently declined to an thorise, the extension of the bus strike to other sections of Lon-of arge-scale Italian military In-"
CABLES “SWENOMIR '
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don transport.
British Wireless.
. Benor Juan del Vays, head of the Spanish Government delega-
ion to the League of Nations, lert- for Parls to-day, carrying a "white book" to present to the League on May 24, which Government circles claim contains irrefutable evidence.
tervention in Spain. Beuter.
Home or abroad from exaggerated or inaccurate statements. He cites as examples." the political demon+ strations at Hyde Park and Vic- toria Purk at which crowds of 1,200 according to Pollte computatier. and 5.000 respectively, assembled, In these 250,000 and 100,000 appeared in the instances estimates of
press.-
British Wireless.
DEATH OF BISHOP ALEX. WOOD"
Shanghai, May 21. The death occurred here to-day of the Rt. Rev. Alex Wood,, Bishop of Nagpur since 1928, at the age. visit his brother-in-law. Dr. E. L of 86. He came to Shanghai to
Marsh. Reuter
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