1937-05-21 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 21, 1937,

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KING REVIEWS HIS FLEET Twelve Mile Cruise Through Great Armada

Million People

Watch Historic

Ceremony

MILITARY CABLES DUG UP AND BURNED

Only Just Installed At Blacks Links

So Kan, and Au Chak-mau, both

DUKE OF

WINDSOR'S

HONEYMOON

Wiesbaden Believed To Be Destination

of

Tours, To-day. When the Duke of Windsor, and unemployed, were this morning-sen- London, To-day. were witnessed when the by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central their wedding day on June 3 for a tenced to six months' imprisonments Wallis Warfield leave the Cha-

on the afternoon Colourful scenes

on pleading guilty to King, accompanied by Queen Elizabeth and Prin-Magistracy cess Elizabeth, reviewed the assembled might of theft of a quantity of War Depart-stination will be somewhere in Get- the British Fleet off Spithead yesterday.

The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert left her berth at 3.15 in the afternoon. The King was on the bridge with the Queen, who was wearing sun- glasses, and Princess Elizabeth, bareheaded and smiling gleefully.

THE QUEEN AND THE LITTLE PRINCESS WAVED TO THE CHEERING THOUSANDS ON THE SHORE WHILE THE KING CONTINUALLY RAISED A WHITE-GLOVED HAND TO HIS ADMIRAL'S HAT IN SALUTE.

¡ment cable at Blacks Links.

four weeks honeymoon, their

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So Hoi, an unlicenced marine Their destination will probably hawker, was sentenced to four Wiesbaden, near which spa the Duke months' hard labour for receiving has leased a villa.

After this they will go to Cari- and recommended for banishment.

Sergeant Clarke, of Gough Hill this, where the couple have leased Police station, said defendants dug a country, house for July to the end up and damaged six cables totalling of August. 200 yards in length. The cables had ** It is also reported here that the only been recently laid down in a Duke and his wife will visit Ber- seldom-used beaten track and had lin, where they have a number of not been used.

After digging up mutual friends, and will also spend the cables, defendants placed them some time in the Bavarian Alps. in a pit and burned off the outside Trans-Ocean. metal covering and other materials THE encasing the main copper wires. The cost of the cables was estimat- THE ELI-ed at $600 but with freight from England and the labour entailed in installing them, brought the cost The immense decks of the and began a twelve miles cruise to about $1,000.

First defendant was detained Queen Elizabeth were walled past lines of warships, the decks of with the blue and white clad which were manned with blue and with certain tools in his possession. figures of the ship's company, as white clad ships' companies with and enquiries led to the others. they manned ship with arms arms linked. linked, and as the Royal yacht

THE ROAR OF GUNS MINGLED WITH CHEERS AS VICTORIA AND ALBERT ENTERED THE LINES OF FLEET, PASSING BETWEEN THE BATTLESHIP QUEEN ZABETH AND THE CRUISER LONDON.

The King stood up in the bows SIR ROBERT HO drew away from Queen Elizabeth of the Royal Yacht taking the

the Queen, Princess TUNG GIVES BIG and London, the white caps of salute and the sailors in those ships flashed Elizabeth and other members of

above their heads and lusty the Royal Family were assembled BANQUET

cheers echoed over the water, on the bridge.

lowed.

while the ships' bands played the At 5 o'clock the Royal Yacht had. National Anthem.

finished its cruise and it took up Dwarfed by the great steel its mooring at the head of the fleet. walls of Barham, Hood and Re A fly-past of the fleet air-arm fol- pulse, the Victoria and Albert steamed down the armour-clad lanes, passing the old Iron Duke, now a training ship," and aircraft carriers, submarines, - cruisers and destroyers.

SURPRISE VISIT TO “VICTORY”

After this morning's reception of the Board of the Admiralty and British and foreign naval officers, the King, accompanied by the Queen, took Princess Elizabeth on The cheers of each ship's com- a surprise visit to Nelson's flagship,

she Victory-British Wireless. pany. waxed and waned as steamed on her twelve-mile journey,

GERMAN INTEREST

Tremendous interest is being dis- played throughout Germany, says a Berlin report, over the naval re-⠀⠀ view, and yesterday's newspapers devoted their front pages to long and enthusiastic reports of the grand sea pageant.

It is regarded in Germany as being the most impressive part of the Coronation celebrations.

All the papers publish descrip- tions of the thunderous salutes with which the King was welcomed, the impressive scene which was presented to the spectators when the Royal yacht steamed the full length of the Fleet, and the presence of warships of sixteen foreign Powers. and Trans-Ocean.

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MILLION SPECTATORS

From the shores and the heights. of the Isle of Wight and the main land and the decks of liners and pleasure craft of all sorts and sizes, crowds estimated at over a million persons watched the King re- view his fleet at Spithead Soon after 3 o'clock to the Royal Salute, fired from all ships, the Victoria and Albert entered the review area

GRAND ILLUMINATION-

London, To-day.

The biggest crowd in the history of Portsmouth flocked onto the Southsea front last night to witness the grand illumination of the Fleet, and a jostling mass of people strug.........! gled to gain vantage points on the beach and monuments and huts lining the promenade.

In the far distance the illuminated portholes of the Victoria and Albert showed where the King and Queen entertained to. dinner the Com-. manders-in-Chief and Flag-of- ficers of the Home and Medi terranean Fleets, after which -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 o'clock red, white and blue rockets went up frrom the Royal yacht and, as if by magic, the phantom Fleet be came outlined in glittering lines on the horizon. Later the lights of all ships were turned out and after a few seconds darkness, the searchlights of the combined Fleets played in- tricate patterns against the sky. Reuter.

Nanking Officials And Diplomatists As Guests

Nanking, To-day

THOUGHT GIRE WAS FOREIGN

Accent Deceives Police Linguist

have

A girl's perfect imitation of foreign accent was stated in the police court at Liverpool to completely deceived a detective - an expert linguist-into believing that she was a foreigner.

Marcelle Hando, 22, of Kitsbury- road, Berkhamsted, was charged with making a false statement un- der the Aliens. Order, 1920, and was [remanded in custody for a medical-

report

:

French and

The detective said he interviewed Hando when she came off. the Dub Yesterday evening, Sir Robert Holin boat at Liverpool. She said she when he Tung invited Messrs. Wang Ching-was a Hungarian, but wei, Chairman of the Central Poli-spoke to her in German she did not tical Council, Mr. Sun Fo, President understand. He tried

Russian with the same result. of the Legislative Yuan, Mr. Ku Cheng, President of the “During the conversation," said Judicial Yuan, Mr. Yu Yu-jen, the officer, she spoke with pro- President of the Control Yuan, Dr. nounced foreign accent, and imitat- Wang

ed a foreigner so perfectly that she Ching-hui, Acting Presi-

completely deceived me for a long dent of the Executive

Yuan,

time. the British and French Ambass-

"Later she said her name adors and two hundred other Chin-

Toni Hando and that she was a

ese high officials and foreign diplo- mats in Nanking to a banquet. Our Own Correspondent.

BANDIT RAID IN

KWANGTUNG-

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Rumanian. She gave the name of her father as Carlo, her mother as Maria, and her mother's maiden name as Monesco—which is a well- known Rumanian name. Her father, she said, was a trader in horses, and she flew from Rumania to

Seize Control In Taipu Croydon with a man and a woman

District

Canton, To-day

friend named Maria. Vauchas.” -

Hando's story was entire fiction, the officer added. She had never been in a foreign country in her

It is reported that the bandits life, and her father was a native of on the Kwangtung and Fukien fron- Brecon, South Wales. tiers have become "active, and that The girl had apparently told a la party under Li Tin-fei have cap- Welsh farmer living near Mold that tured parts of the Taipu District, she had married his son, and that General Yu, Han-man, Pacifica- he had left her stranded in London. tion Commissioner for Kwangtung, The farmer paid her fare from has instructed General Tseng Yau- London to Mold, and she lived with jen, Divisional Commander the him and his wife as their daugle- 158th Division to despatch troopster-in-law for a fortnight. When there and to suppress the

Pandits they got into touch with their son immediately. Our Own Corres-he denied the story... pondent.

Chung Hing, aged 11 was admit- The R.M.S. "Empress of Canada" ed to the G. C. H. suffer

suffering from left Yokohama this morning and

slight head injuries received when due at Vancouver on Wednesday, he ran in front of a car in Queen's June 2.

Road West yesterday afternoon. Yesterday