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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1936.
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MAIDEN VOYAGE?
THE Queen Mary, pride of the nation, is fast
approaching completion.
intense interest is being taken throughout the world in the new flagship of Britain's merchant marine.
It is believed that sentiment on both sides of the Atlantic would be highly gratified by the announcement that one or moro members of the Royal Family would be aboard for the maiden voyage from Southampton to New York which begins on May 27.
Just Received.
Nothing like the radiotelephone A Fresh Shipment of VIOLINS, VIOLAS ÄND",
equipment has been seen before, Tile
ship will have 12 wavelengths. In CELLOS.
the two radio stations, 250ft. apárt to allow simultaneous working, every-
thing is duplicated in case of break Also VIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO, DOUBLE-BASS, GUITAR BANJO, TENOR BANJO, MANDOLINE
down.
If both these stations should be put f
out of action there remains a complete AND UKELELE STRINGS AND ACCESSORIES. independent emergency station.
Five hundred cabins have tele- phones, so that in mid-Atlantic pas- sengers may take an early call from home without getting out of bed.
Walk through the "show" deck- the Promenade deck--and see it as it will look by May 27.'
The Main Hall is 100ft. long and is
lined with shops. An ornamental
fountain stands in the centre. The ballroom is decorated 'in aflver and
blue, with silver planos.
looking out on the sports deck. These windows have silla which are heated so that they cannot be marred by
The Verandah Grill has 22 windows
steam.
Here the lights change colour according to the volume of sound in the restaurant. Soft lights for sweet musle; bright lights for hot rhythm.
A main lounge has an enormous
talkies. It is one of three cinemas.
stage for concerts and is wired for
The presence of the Duke and Duchess of York or the Duke and Duchess of Kent would be extremely popular. It would set the seal on the close personal association of the Royal family with the great liner in all her stages of construc-books; a children's playroom fitted tion.
The arrival of the Queen Mary is being eagerly awaited in the |United States, and pictorial displays in connection with her trip are
already appearing in New York shop windows.
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Meals are Interchangeable, no extra cost wherever you have your breakfast, luncheon, tes, or dinner.
Roos of both hotels have private bathrooms and modern sanitation. At the Runnymede each room has its own pubile telephone,
The Runnymede. Relaurant has undeniably pride of place among hotels of the East with its cuisine, and Justly claima by its swarelation to offer the traveller such as is not to be found elsewhere.
Nothing would be calculated more effectively to heighten the appeal of the ship in America than the presence of royalty. It would be regarded us a charming [compliment to the American
people.
The British Royal Family is greatly respected throughout the United States, and the distin- guished travellers in the Queen Mary would be received as am bassadors of good will,
A series of brillant entertain- ments would inevitably be staged In their honour.
It has been suggested that the Queen herself is to be invited to sall in the liner during the final stages of her trials.
Cala On Eve Of Sailing
fining down of the machinery to five-hundredth part of an inch.
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Then there is a drawing-room, smoke-ruom, Д library with 2,000
with a model railway, and sound-proof studios for musicians and stage artists who want to work on board.
Swimming pools with aluminium water-chutes, turkish baths, gymna- siums and tennis and squash courts aare provided to give passengers plenty
of exercise..
air.
In every bedroom you can turn a
mous
to give yourself warm air or cald
A man who worked on the engines and who wanted to bet that one could snooker on any deck while the engines table and play set up a billiard
Everything to please you, nothing ot were running at full speed, concluded disturb you, that is the slogan of the his challenge with the words: "Ay...Queen Mary's builders. When she we admit we're guid."
blows her whistle (she has three enor- They have a world reputation of are still "whistles) you will not be syrens, each Bft. long, but they the Clyde for microscopic accuracy, Inconvenienced, because the note-the When the Queen Mary puts out to A, two octaves below the middle C
80,000 tom of steel-the has been selected after long experi- a hor
** causing least vibration, original 73,000 tons have been in-nent creased by new machinery and im- though it reaches several miles, provements will be controlled by
The Queen Mary is classed as a power. The engines of the Norman is giving the Cunard-White Star Line engines developing 200,000 horse cabin ship at present, a fact which die, the crack French ship, develop a new influence in its current dealings with the North Atlantic Conference
100,000 hors-power.
Although the Normandie can point over the vexed question of farea. to an overall length of 1,029ft. as Cabin faro one way has been fixed
gainst her British rival's 1,018ft, the at E56 bin
the summer SCASON, Normandie's bows let her taper away to less than 1,000ft. at the waterling, bound traffic and in June for East
starts in August for West- while the Queen Mary's waterline bound traffic. The round trip in the length is 1,004ft.
summer will cost £105, cabin.
'Reach 34 Knots
In John Brown's yard they have
The Queen's birthday falls on May 26, and a gala party in her honour will probably be held aboard. the liner on the eve of the maideno doubt that their ship will reach
34 knots. On her scheduled run fromi Į voyage.
Southampton and Cherbourg to New York she will be required to 32 knots.
Meanwhile the "black squad" has gone from the vessel, and the eraftsmen and artists have moved, in.
Now 2,500 workpeople arej planing and carving, painting and polishing, connecting thou- sands of telephones, bells and
to
The officers and men who are man the Queen Mary under
which
That is the highest fare for the Queen Mary. But you can sail in her for much less than that. The single and return figures are:
do
Cabin Tourist Third
Cabin Tourist Third
. Captain Sir Edgar Britten are now being selected. Thousands of meu would give a year of their life for one of these jobs.
When Sir Edgar paid his first visitį
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£62 10 and £99 15 £27 15 £51 10 £18 10 £33 10 Summer Scason
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£33 10.
And a baby under one year can possible luxury for £2. the trip.
lamps to thousands of miles of to his ship after receiving the comtravel in the Queen Mary with all wire, laying linoleum, fixing mand he doclared: panels and friezes, glazing win-
"She'll be easy to handle and a fine" dows, fitting up lifts and shops, sailor. That's all a sailor could wish
for."
More than 20,000 gallons of oil are aboard. The boilers have been tried Not only will the Queen Mary bé Within the next week or two the greatest ship on the seven seas, the engines will be "turned over" for she will be the safest, the first time.
out.
Propellers will
be disconnected; steam will be turned Into the nammoth turbines; gearwheels weigh- ing up to 80 tons will revolve. The ship will come to life.
She has an inner skin and a doublo bottom, and she is filled with water tight and fireproof bulkheads which will shut off any section of the ship.
Lifeboats Hold 140 People
SAFETY FIRST
Special measures to safeguard the 10,200-ton Anglo-American Oil Com Queen Mary were taken when a pany tanker was launched from berth alongside the liner last month.
To swing hor clear of the Queen Mary, the stern of which protruded Her steel lifeboats, hanging from Clyde, the tanker was weighted on the 100ft. out of the fitting basin into the! They are talking about this, the davits that drop them 180ft. to the port side with drag chains of 480 tons. biggest moment in John Brown's ship-water in little over a minute, have Immediately she was floated the yard since the launch. The experts motors that will start instantaneously, weight of the chains swang her into say there will be no vibration.
They have taken all precautions against it, the greatest being the
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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS. ·
ACROSS
10
1 The plenipotentiary who carries
his drink well.
This fellow's an auctioneer.
D Rods and lines are within his
province.
11 They speak well, giving a deser-
ter an alternative,
12 Where Elsie takes thom.
time.
13 Where bella's ticket was all the 14 One had to risk this, but-it's o
dreadful clue. 17 Dependents.
19 You will and the reptile with. 20 Fifty into four will go
out a head in the Pyrenees,
21
Having given the poor father- child a letter you'll find it enchanting.
23 She's a singular hussy though she reminds one of several animals.
24 In this building the sailor met
the Turk
26 Sho makes use of five raw
potatoes.
20 Arme joins Ken in the making
of
cottoir cloth. 30 Out of the ordinary.
31 Eapy.
32 Of course.nset fangs hold
securely (onng.).
DOWN
2 Inarticulato sounds near Swan-
800.
3. If Manners lost her ho'd still
have the missis,
4 Podgy little book that contains a
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5 Actually existing and spent in
Spain. Put out in litring made a hur-
WANG CHING-WEI
GOING TO HAWAII FOR CONVALESCENCE
According to the Chinese press Mr. Wang Ching-wel has decided to go to
Nanking, Feb. 12.
werd Hawail for his convalescence.
The Government has given its assent to this course-United Press.
Each holds 140 people-more than mid-stream,, where anchors the first Cunarder, the Britannic, dropped to prevent her drifting Inte could accommodate in her cabins, the ilner.
SAY, BELLHOPI GOT JEST TEN -- NO SOONER MINUTES TA KETCH MY TRAIN! WILL SAIDSKI THAN YA DASH UP TO MY ROOM AN' SEE, DONESKI, SIRI IF THERE'S A PACKAGE ON TH
DESK?
Nothing To Worry About
WHAT TH' HECKS KEEPIN' THAT HOP? NOW. IT'S FIVE MINUTES TA KETCH
MY TRAIN!
ried escapo, and ridiculed. 7K taxailon "must ruin
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nouncements.
10 Are altered in time, 16.One sort of king,
18 These instruments could bo
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music
to
20 ör interest to a banker, but a
reproach, it might seem, Anne. Straightening out before night
comes,
25 German river
27 Personality that need Tot be
offensive.
28 What sort of a game is this:
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