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KING'S YACHT
CHALLENGED
BRITANNIA CAPABLE OF HOLDING HER OWN
PROSPECTS AGAINST FAMOUS YANKEE
TORE than forty years ago, mains practically the same below
M when King Edward, then decks as she was when King Ed--
“Often have they been at logger- beads among themselves, but they Prince of Wales, built his racing ward first sailed aboard her in have never flown at each other's acht Britannia, there came to 1895
Ота her saloon bulkheads, or throats, and from every grave dis- Cowes an American yacht called pute has resulted some substantial Navahoe. She was owned by Mr.walls, are photographs of family Phelps Carroll and was one of the groups showing King George as a gain
The People acclaims itself, yet fastest and finest vessels of her midshipman, and oil-paintings and water-colour sketches by the not without genuine gratitude and day in the States.
Her visit caused tremendous ex Chevalier de Martino, marine, pain- affection towards the Represents-
citement, for in those days, just aster to King Edward, of incidents in tive of its glory and its power.
to-day, everyone was arguing her career.
yachts and Anyone who goes aboard is whether American
"The Constitutional Compact has been well preserved. Review the
CONTINUITY 4
:
Taces
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cabins
we's
record of kingdoms and say how Fachtsmen were superior to their struck by the "homeliness" of her often it has come to pass that contemporaries in England. Navahoe sailed thirteen
In most modern racing yachts- Sovereigns and people rejoiced to-
against Britannia, and only man-comfort is sacrificed for weight, gether over bloodless victories.”
are fitted below with Jaged to beat her once and then and some
only the bare necessities insisted: only after lodging a protest.
In 1894 the American yachts-upon by the rules. But with Bri These words were written by an-men sent over another yacht this tannis this is not the case. If the other man in another generation.
time Vigilant, the vessel that had decorations of her cabins are ola nevertheless They are from George Gissing's successfully defended the Ameri-fashioned, they are essay on Queen Victoria's Diamondca's Cup against Lord Dunraven's charming, and all contribute to telling the life story of the most Jubilee in 1897. They are
to be Valkyrie the year before. found in "The Private Papers of Vigilant fared little better than remarkable racing yacht afloat Henry Eyecroft"
Navahoe had done against Bri-a ash-tray won at this regatta a Together with other comments of tannia: in the 17 races she sailed cigarette box won at another, ther on the character of the against the Prince of Wales's cat silver plate in the companion deck-
Successful. British people, these words are as ter she only managed to beat her house recording her
irisits to the Mediterranean “re- true to-day as when they were first five times. written
Since then no other American attas, the cushian embroidered
site has visited with her racing flag-ali souvenirs- They are even more appropriate racing yacht of any
of her facing career. After the general election it to the reign of King George than to our shores. was realised that there were that of his grandmother. jother big questions of a non- party nature, particularly Indian reform; and it is the final and
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CAR DRIVERS FINED
Lack Of Due Care And Caution
"To know Britannia is to under- The Yankee's Visit
istand why her owner has Never Now, at last an American cutter replaced her with a more modem
is coming over. Mr. Gerald Lam- bert's Yankee, which several times
Tessel
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Still Up To Date Quite apart from these seati
But the King's entter to-day is cared for and her rig changed with still the most popular racing yacht the times, there is no reason why aflost as well as being the most re-she should not win her fair share. markable ever built.
of prizes against newer vessels.
Whether in this his Jubilee year King Loves Vessel
the King will beat the American One is often asked why the catter remains to be seen. It is King does not build a new yacht to believed that, sailed by Sir Philip
her since he was a young man. He
paradoxical comment of facts on A cockney merchant had made a los defeated the successful" America's Paris And London
the old-fashioned party warfare of money and decided to spend some of Cup defender, Rainbow, in trials. that the biggest of the problems Scotland. On the first evening, the butlantic to spend the summer sailing tannia in commission, the King in the Highlands of is now on her way across the At-mental reasons for keeping Boi- -national solvency, the abander approached him and said: "Would There is a change of Ministry donment of Free Trade, and you care to have the pipers at dinner,
can still justly claim that he has in our regattas. going on both in Paris and Lon-India-have been dealt with as Sir
She will race 35 Harwich, a fine racing yacht. don, but the circumstances and non-political" The steady debut you can
To the man in the street it s “No thanks,” was the casual repis, Southend, Cowes, Eyde, Southsea, the political atmosphere are as
tike 'em to the other Bournemouth,
Weymouth, Tor probably difficult to understand different as can be. In both cline of influence of the Labo room, and I read 'em fter."
Ministers; and even of the
quay. Plymouth and Dartmouth. why such a yacht built so long ago countries politics have become Liberal section individually
She will sail against Endeavour, has not become out of date, or how almost indistinguishable from much more able has gradually
The Big Test finance: the same may be said made it seem absurd that the have here a famous femble comb that dida and Britannia.
Salesman: Ladies and gentlemen, 1 Velsheda, Shamrock Astra, Can- the yachts built to-day can pos-
sibly fail to beat so old a vessel
The of Washington. and of every Conservatives should not take will stand any kind of treatment. You So, after a lapse of more than
answer is simple enough. other large centre. And the ore the nominal responsibility can bend iz double, you can hit it with same statement will continue to as well as
a hammer, you can twist it, you—”
forty years, history will be repeat For various reasons the hull form the actual control be true until the great financial secured to them by their zam- your hair with it?”
Interested Listener; “Can you combed the royal cutter Britannia will or shape of racing yachts has once again be matched against a changed comparatively little since centres begin to recognise that bers.
first-class American yacht. --
Britannia was buit. The "great one of the principal objects of] In the French Parliament the good government is to enable the group system of party warfare
Of all the famous racing yachts advance has been made in the de- Willie's mother thought him delicate,adost in the days when Britannia sign and shape of sails, and this citizens to exchange goods with was not an accident but endemic and he was excused gymnastics at saled against Navahoe and Vigi-advance has been influenced by the the citizens of other countries Too much can easily be made of
school instead of using the whole the frequent changes of Ministry, others are in the gymnasium
Uncle: "What do you do while the lant the King's vessel alone re-progress of aviation!' machinery of the State to pre-for the fact is France is govern-
mains. The others have all gone to Provided, therefore, an old yacht Wilhe: "I go in the park and play the scrap heap.
such as Britannia has been well vent such exchanges as far as ed by her Departments, and there
football* possible Paris is troubled be-lis no country where policy is cause the budget cannot be more continuous and consistent. balanced. London has at least A few months ago there died a retained enough respect for old man of great ability and experi- and sound maxims to achievejence, M. Berthelot, who for many that first requisite of security; years was the real controller of and the comparative calm which French foreign policy. left people free to talk about the ing office a brilliant orator like Charged with driving motor-lorry compete on equal terms with the Honlake, who is one of the finest Bahram Derby and go on with M. Briand would immediately No. 3224 without due care and can- modern vessels The answer racing helmsmen alive. Britannia. ordinary business is a clear indi-consult with M. Berthelot, and tion, Lan Wong was fined $25 by that His Majesty loves Britannia will add to her long string of win- cation that without a balanced his speeches would reveal a sur-Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Fo- He has known her and sailed ning flags this summer budget no clever manipulation of prising acquaintance with detail lice Court, this morning.
When the winds are light she details can do much good.
which was notoriously alien to It was stated by the prosecuting has owned her for 25 years and has cannot hope to hold the modern The overshadowing money his easy-going temperament: but officer that defendant was driving won scores of hard fought aces vessels, but when winds are strong question is not the only point of the diplomatic corps never made along Stubbs Road, and on reaching with her.
one expects to see the grand old After the war, when it seemed cutter beat the American at Cowes resemblance. In both capitals any mistake about who they had the Stubbs Garage, he overtook a
that the glorious sport of yachting just as she beat those other visitors there is no clear-cut division be to deal with. The eighteen lorry." In doing so he almost cal- tween the outgoing and the in- Ministries in six years would lided with the car of Dr. (Mrs.) A was dead, it was the King with more than forty years ago. coming Ministers. The new have meant chaos in England. I. J. Dovey, who had to apply her his cutter Britannia who saved combination is really. a re- where the political head is er brakes to avoid a serious collision the situation. arrangement of groups. rather pected to take a much more per Lance-Sergeant Quantrell, of the Els Majesty's interest in the than a defeat of one party by sonal control. In France the Royal Army Service Corps, was sport of yacht racing has always another A comparison between great difficulty has been to get fined $15 by Mr. W. Schofield at the been an exceedingly active one. He The death of Miss Yuan Ling-su the groups and the feeling that the Foreign Office to recognise Central Police Court this morning is a sailor at heart and a fine prompts their action throws how rapidly circumstances have for driving car No. 1204, without helmsman All the timer techni-depicting the life story of the film much light on the actual working changed, and that new facts re-idue care and caution OF
calities of the game he studies star who committed suicide some Tytam of the two great democratic sys- quired new policies. There are Road at about 9.20 am, on April 22 closets, and the various altera-me ago, has been banned by the tems of the Western European advantages as well as disadvan-la
Kuomintang on the ground that tions, modifications, and changes civilisation. In England Mrtages in bureaucracy. The old
of rig that have been made to B-Certain sections of the play are un-
fit for the public. rescutation. Ramsay MacDonald's former Gladstone Disraeli seesaw was RAPID GROWTH OF tannia of recent years have been Labour Government had manag-disastrous enough in the days of ed to kill the old repute of the prosperity; it would have been golden sovereign, and it had be fatal in these days when New! come necessary to let the pound Deals and new Dictators keep the sterling find its own level. The world in a ferment wedge Government resigned, and sug- Sir Stafford Cripps, with his gested that the Conservatives proposals for a socialist Dictator should take in hand, the task of ship, has only succeeded in mar- regaining lost confidence. It'ring a promising career, and is was then seen that things had not taken any more seriously population of the city the Muni- gone too far to save the "link" than Sir Oswald Mosley and his cipal authorities are contemplating with gold through the bullion Fascists, but
the devel here is bar, and it was the King himself danger of a dominant burean- Chungshan who insisted that if the pound czary. Lord Hewart may hav sterling was to stand on its own been indiscreet in his recent pro been merits
be set aside, test, but he had general sym Pub and the best course was that the pathy England will never take
should kindly to bour Ministers The average
up the whom he
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carried out under his instructions. It is due entirely to his en- thusiasm that Britannia, has been kept up to date and because of his keenness to get the best out of his yacht that she is still capable” of winning prizes in her forty-second year.
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