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~FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1925.

THE PRINCE'S SHIP.

WONDERS OF THE REPULSE.

"SILVER CRUISER."

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Every Day Life On Board Giant Vessel.

THE CHINA MAIL.

FIVE YEARS AFTER.

Curious Political Whirligig.

CAILLAUX'S RETURN,

Steaming south from Lagos to Capetown is the Repulse with Back In Senate On Day He Was the Prince of Wales aboard, one of the largest warship afloat.

When the sunlight falls upon with another 200 chests and her the battle cruiser Repulse cases. These are in the charge of looks like a ship of polished silver, eight sorvants, one for each mem- jewelled here and there, with big ber of the suit, while the Prince

himonds, and with a great white has two personal valets. gross, making the heavens from her

One circumstance that in mainast head, says n writer increases the amount of kit required ape paper. Of course, she is by the royal' party is that the nit siver really. All the mines Repulse, has no inuiry, so that of the world could scarcely supply as regarils starched things, at any enough of that metal to make, ti | rate, enough havé hnd, to be taken prasad 7917%, long and weighing to last for the whole month of the nearly 38,09, 10ns--and that is the|voynge to Capetown..

PRINCE ON BOARD A WARSHIP,

This happy photograph shows His Royal Highness us he is on boardi The Repulse now stemning south to Capetown for his tour of South Africa,

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size of the Repulse. The silvery When the Repulse is in harbour effect is due to the gleaming light a certain amount of official enter- sheen of her paint-work. Simi-taining is done on board by the Tarly the iliamonds" are in Prince. For this purpose cooks, reality only the highly burnished stewards, and waiters to the num- steel muzzles of her guns which ber of twenty-one have been sparkle so brilliantly when the taken, together with a stock of sunlight touches them.

special stores for the Prince's The aperial mission of the table.. Enough crockery is on Repulse requires her to provide board the Repulse to solve "stand quarters for no fewer than 90 up réfreshments" to 900 people at ndiļitjonal people, including the once.

Prince and his personal staff of | The rest of the Prince's retinue

THE CRUISE OF THE REPULSE.

BECHUANALO

BASUFOL

OF GOOD HOPE "Cape Town

SHAF

SOUTH

BRAZIL

AMERICA

Buenos Aires

THERN

GAMBIA

SIERRA LEONE

GOLD COAST

NIGERIA

AFRICA

Cape Town

Our mop shows the route being followey by the Repulse. Places already visited are Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast and Nigeria. The next port of call is Capetown.

includes confidential clerks, for

Banished."

(Reuter's Service.)

Paris, April 23. On the Sfth anniversary of his- tanishmeet by the Senate. M. Caillaux. Minister of Finance, re- appeared in the Senate 16-day and took charge of the Budget.

BRITAIN'S GLORY.

“VINDICTIVE" EXPLOIT ANNIVERSARY,

ZEEBRUGGE MEMORIAL".

Frantic Cheers for Limping Heroes.

Stirring scenes were witnessed at Zeebrugge yesterday when. an imposing memorial was unveiled in memory of the Vindictive's great exploit during the war.

THE ROAR OF GUNS.

the

ZEEBRUGGE, April 23. Before the King and Queen arrived the survivors from the

from marched Caledon beflagged mole to the monument, They were frantically cheered, especially the Juvalided ones, The discussions,.,, it was note many of whom were limping, worthy, were without demonstra-supported by sticks. tion. a marked contrast to the scene in the Chamber of Deputies on April 21:

[When M. Caillaux first entered the Chamber of Deputies on April 1 after his return to power he was received with mingled hisses and cheers. In an electri- eal atmosphere the Chamber debated an interpellation lodged by M. Bertrand on behalf of the ex-Service men's group asking why M. Caillaux was included in the Cabinet. Cheers and Tout protests. mingled while M. Caillaux himself sat on the Minis- turial bench contemptuously in- different. M. Bertrand reall out. Frhe text of the High Court son- toine against M. Callbaux for communicating with the enemy. He heatedly remarked that France had not yet arrived at the pass of having to choose between Caillaux and bankruptcy, M. Painleye replied quietly that he had chosen the best qualified mun. He had appointed M. Caillaux, Minister of Finance as he had ap- pointed Marshals Foch and Petin to the chief commands in the war.]

M. Caillaux was, Minister of Finance before the war when his wife, shot M. Calmette, editor of the "Figaro" for publishing in- timate letters her husband wrote to her before they were married. M. Caillaux resigned. His wife

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The King, wearing a khaki uniform with the crimson sash of the Order of the Bath, performed the unveiling.

the Caledon and the shore batteries. A salute was fired by the guns of The Belgian and British bands played, the National Anthems.

At the conclusion of the speeches the British sailors and members of Britishand Belgian societies placed wreaths at the memorial.

BRITAIN'S LEAD.

Wis tried and acquitted. LAST YEAR'S SUEZ CANAL Throughout the war M. Caillaux was stigmatised as a traitor and

a pro-German and his very life

I was not safe. When Clemenceau rame into power he had M. Caillaux arrested for alleged tren- 2011, After spending about two years in prison M. Caillaux was' sentenced by the High Court to the term he had already served and was banished from Paris.

TRAFFIC.

EARLIER CABLES..

上

ZEEBRUGGE, April 23, TM 1n, cloudy, threatening weather, the cruiser Caledon, bringing 250

herdes of the historic attack,

erived at 10.30 this morning from Dover and exchanged salutes with the batteries ashore."

The ships in harbour formed an Imposing scene round the mem-

King Albert.

orial, which is a seventy foot granite, column surmounted by figures of St. George and the Dragon, and inscribed "St. George Belgian troops, in tin helmets, and for England." A large force of Belgian bluejackets were drawn up on each side.

The King and Queen of the Belgians, immediately they arrived from Brussels, laid a wreath inscrib ed "Albert and Elizabeth," at the foot of the monument.

After unveiling the Memorial, King Albert, speaking first int French and then in English,“paid homage to the incomparable heroes' whose feat of arms will rank among the highest records of the British Navy.

Lord Eminot, Chairman of the NEARLY 60 PER CENT OURS. Zeebrugge Memorial Fund, reply-

(Reuter's Service.)

LONDON, April 24. The shipping return for the Suez Canal In 1924 shows that the seaborne traffic was 5,122 vessels

with a gross tonnage of 34,500,000. The transit receipts were 186,500,000 franes.

SCENES OF VIOLENCE.

Paris, April 23. There" were stormy scenes in

Ships flying the British flag the Chamber of Deputies on the supplied 596 of the total per occasion of the election of M.centage of tonnage, followed by Herriot as President. The whole Dutch vessels with 9.9, German of the Opposition rosained from 6.6, French 6.3, Italian 59, voting in the first ballot, with the Japanese 3.5 and American 3,1,, result that a

quorum was not obtained.

The Leftists were annoyed by his maneuvre, and when the second ballot was taken an uproar was aroused by the action of a Rightist, M. Balanant, placing himself in a position to overlook the counting of the votes by the secretaries.

A Socialist deputy objected, but M. Bulanant refused to budge. Several Sociklists rushed at him and began to punch his head.

The Rightist deputies rushed to the rescue and for some minutes there was a regular melee round the steps of the tribune, whereon M. Balanant was standing."

SHOT DEAD,

BULGARIAN CONSPIRATOR

KILLED.

BOMB OUTRAGE SEQUEL.

(Reuter's Service)

ing, mentioned that the Memorial was erected by the inhabitants of the British Dominions and possessions overseas, who were among the

considerable contributors,

most

A heavy rainstorm occurred

during the ceremony and speeches.

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On St. George's Day (April 23, 1918) Zeebrugge was attacked by a British Flotilla under Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, including the cruiser Vindictive, the ferry-boats Iris and Daffodil carrying storming and demolishing parties, and the Iphigenia, Intrepid and Thetis, blockships filled with cement. The vessels approached under a smoke screen, but the wind blew it aside, and the Germans opened an intense fire on the mole, alongside

Vindictive which lay the

and the ferry-boats.

of In spite heavy losses, storming parties.

and.. were landed,

began the work of destruction, aided by an obsolete submarine (C3), which run against the railway viaduct connecting the mole with the land and successfully blew it up. The purpose of these opera- They called on him to sur-tions was to distract attention from render but he refused. They then the blockships, of which the Thetis shot him dead.

unfortunately foundered in the outer harbour, being caught in a protecting net, but the Iphigenia and the Intrepid penetrated the entrance to the Bruges canal, and were sank there in a V position, which almost blocked the fairway; the Central Executive Committee The survivors of the crews and of the Soviet Union, 100 prisoners landing parties were, then re- have been liberated at Tiflis.hither-

embarked. to, and 150 have had their terms of imprisonment halved. The cor- responding figures for Kutals are

SOFIA, April 19.d The police have unearthef Ouloff, one of Minkoff's ctie confederates.

The sitting was suspended, but on resumption there were violent Moscow, April 23-The Rosta altercations between the Social agency states that in accordance ists and Rightists before M.with the amnesty promulgated by Herriot was eventually elected.“

BELGIUM'S TROUBLES.

Brussels, April 23. The Socialist Congress has passed a resolution affirming the futility of continuing negotiations Reuter.

with the other Parties with a view to the formation of a Cabinet.

91 liberated and 50 reduced.-

that there is no

was

SUGAR SUBSIDY.

IRISH FREE STATE MEASURE.

(Reuter's Service.).

This decision marks the break-.! Moscow, April 23-It is officially down of the inter-Party consulta-announced tions that have been proceeding justification for fears that the during the week with the aim of winter sowinga in some districts will be destroyed. The crop securing a Cabinet with a work-

everywhere is satisfactory, except ing mujority.

in some places on the Lower Vilga. Farmers are showing a

LONDON, April 23. tendency considerably to increase The Finance Minister in the their spring sowings compared | Dall said the subsidy in respect of with last year.Reuter,

the beet sugar industry was an average of 238. per cwt and was Tokyo, April 23-An authorita-conditional on payment to growers ive source states that Mr. Tokichi for the first three years of the Tanaka, ex-Vice-Minister for For decade of 548. per ton. eign Affairs, is being formally

six officers.

and consist of a plain white- Such

a variety of occasions, typing his official correspondence, enamelled dining-room stretching elimates, and conditions is includ- a printer, with a hand-press, for the whole breadth of the ship, and in the tour that an expérienced printing. copies of official opening into a drawing-room

speeches, menus and programmes, similar style...

Tinue and large quantities of habgage are indispensable.

The Princs has to be prepared for every sort of function, from formal banquets to big game shooting, and the weather condi- tions vary from the tropical heat of Nigeria to the bitter cold of the African veld in winter,""

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two special service men responsi- A small sleeping cabin for the appointed as Ambassador to ble for the personal safety of the Prince opens from the drawing- Muscow shortly. Mr. Yoshizawa, Prince, and ten other officials with room on the port side. Beyond Minister at Peking, was to receive varying duties..

Washington, April 23.-The this is a bathroom and from that the appointment, but owing to in- Department of Commerce has The Royal Marines Band leads off the cabin of the Prince's disposition from an accident last fined the owners of the British (Deal), whose strength is twenty, A.D.C

winter-ho is unable to 4-ke-up-the steamer Voltaire $25,000 for violate also accompany the Prince. Their On the starboard side of the post. As the Soviet. Ambassador log the coastwise law by taking music nione fills ten lurgy chests main deck an inconsperous, little is due in Tokyo on Saturday, the fast July. 550 American Dassengers It is not surprising, therefore, The Prince himself has the grey-painted structure Is the Japanese Press has been urging the from Philadelphia to Nova Scotia that the luggage of the Prince and quarters that would be those of squash racquets court which has Government to hurry the appoint and bringing them back with a his staff amounts to some 2001 the admiral if the Repulse were a been built to provide the Princement of an Ambassador to Mos stop at Boston, Router's American

cow Reuter suitcases and trunks, together flagship. They are right aft, with exercise on board.

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