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The following inessages were exchang ed by signal between the King and Admiral Sir John de Roleck after the naval review at Spithead recently -

From his Majesty the King, afloat, the Commander-in-Chief:

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Parliamentary debates on the Navy Estimates. We are all of us learners in the school of experience, päd it may prove, in the end, that it was no bad thing! for the British Empire that men reared in humble homes should, in the courag of events, have been called upon to form procession. formal as it was significant, take the seals of high offer. Thera something in the blood of the raw, as well as in age-long traditions, which links

We ar generation to generation. nation salted by the seas of a thousand years and the heirs of great traditions.

It is with much pleasure that 1 have inspected the Fleet under your cum-

THE PERSISTENCE OV TRADITION. mand, and I am especially glad to havo had the opportunity of doing so before As the procession of yuchta swept into you hauled down your day at the end Spithead, one's thoughts turned to those of your long and distinguished career immemorable traditions which are passed. afoat. I am proud of the splendid on from age to age. For the first time appearance of the ships and of their for 100 years the pince of the Victory at crews, and know that this condition of the entrance of Portsmouth Harbour was efficiency can only be maintained by empty. It will never he occupied again. that discipline and devotion to dutyThe old ship-the, cathedral of the which animate all ranks and ratings of | Navy can no longer withstand the the Service.

buffeting of the waves. She lies in dock Please express to the tag officers, in honoured peace, for she is not being captains, officers, and men my appre-neglected. Before going afont I was able ciation of all 1 have seen to-day. to visit her and are the progress which is being made in restoring her to the con-

· Commander-in-Chief replied:dition in which she was when she took ber The Commander-in-Chief, with humble part in the Battle of Trafalgar. Tho duty, begs to thank his Majesty the King work has made great headway since Ad- wiral of the Fleet Sir Doveton Sturtlen for his gracious message, which has been issued his appeal for funds. The hull is transmitted to the Flout at Spithead The

once more painted in long lines of black officers and men are deeply thankful to and yellow; the figurehead is resplend- his Majesty for having honoured them by to-day's review, and have received with eat in many colours; replicas of the old the greatest pride such an expression of 1 are being remounted; and an army his Majesty's approval."

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PORTSMOUTH. Tens of thousands of men, woinen, and children will look back throughout their lives with proud satisfaction to the spec tacle which was presented recently on the spacious waters which lie between the Hampshire const and the wooded shores of the Isle of Wight. It was a day of King's weather, the sun breaking through the clouds until at times the heat in the Ice of the fresh breeze was almost oppres-

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of workmen is busily engaged 'restoring the interior of the ship, with its cramped and ill-lighted cabins to its original form. Before long the Fictory as Nelson knew her will exist once more; a visible emblem of the survival of great tradi tions of duty and discipling, which we may pray, will persist in spite of all the changes and chances of politics and the slow evolution of our social system. A breathed his last seemed a not unfitting visit of homage to the place where Nelson prelude to King George's review of his Post-War Fleet.

The yachts turned in between lines "D" and "E," and I thought of Eng fand the unchangeable. amid all the my- rind changes. For beside me stood an officer of the Navy, now retired, who as a child, the godson of Admiral Sir Char les Napier, was present in 1854 on the ocasion when Queen Victoria herself bade farewell to the Fleet about to leave for the Crimea. Steam was then begin-

When it was aunounced several months ago that his Majesty would visit Ports Bouth to steam through the lines of the assembled Atlantic and Reserve Fleets it was thought that the occasion would bring to asserts its ascendancy over sail power. Most of the sailors of the times, purely domestic. Political circumstances from the Lords of the Admiralty down fortunately, intervened to change the as- pect of alinirs. The presence in London steam-engine with suspicion and hated to the youngest midshipman, regarded the of the leading statesmen of the Allied

to hear the ward coal, with all its sugg nations, striving is conference to round off an abiding pence in this sixth year grations of hard work down below and cinders on deck. Now coal has gone. after the Armistice, converted the review

the ships on Practically all

which into something of an international event. the spectators looked rely upon oil Among the guests to whom invitations to be present were issued were the Prime furl-capital shipa, cruises, destroy- Ministers of France and Belgium, as well ers, and submarines. The steamn-engine even threatened by the motor-engine, re- as the principal representatives, Ambas

presented in submarines, and the elec sadors, or Ministers, as the case migh

trically propelled ship wns. present at ix, at the Court of St. James, of the Spithead though it is only when sub- United States, Brazil, Cuba, France merged that the "K" submarines are Greech. Italy, Japan, Portugal. Rou-

thus propelled. mania, and Siam; and the decks of the former CP.M. liner Prinerss Margaret,

As the eyes of the fifties" of the nine. bearing the principal guests, were also teenth century swept over the city of rightened by the cocked hats and gold fighting power, they were refreshed with Ince of bemedalled officers of the principal the sight of scores of yachts, in their üni navies of the world. But the domestic at forms of white sail: of paddle steamers, though their hearts would tmosphere was preserved by the large puffing a number of representatives of the Domi-break with the exertion; of motor-boats, nions who were present, as well as by scurrying here and there on urgent mis- the crowds of spectators who had either sions, and of great liners, rising deck goor effeat or had taken up advantageous upon deck from the water-level, lying places ashore. Probably never before did over by the Mother Bank off the Isle of so many eyes, British and foreign, look out over the sunlit waters of Spithead and the Solent. It should be added that all the arrangements far, the comfort of the official guests appeared to have work ed both efficiently and smoothly.

THE COMING OF THE KING.

The Princess Margaret, as well as the ferry steamers Nimble and Harlequin, and the tugs Pert, Grappler, and Sprite, laden with guests. had moved out of the harbour soon after noon in readiness to

Wight. The past and the present of British sea-power were gathered up to form a picture linking us with the great past and its heroes, the Nelsons, the Rodneys, the Hoods, and the Drakes. The ships have changed, but the spirit

the Navy and may we not hope the spirit of ne nation also remains unchanged; in spite of all the miracles of physical science as applied to the defence and use of the sens.

What can be said of the actual spee

form the tail of the Royal procession when tacie, as the Princess Margaret, followed half past two that the nose of the Trinity defies the writer with his pen, as well as it was formed, and it was shortly before by the other vessels with spectators, took her place in the procession? This scene yacht Patricia, emerging between Block- house and Sally Port-still the old Sally the artist with his brush and the photo- Port which Nelson knew-told us that the grapher with his camera. It was one of day's pageantry of sea power was about splendour and power-power of the sea to begin. Dismal prophecies of the wea-well as power of the air. For as the ther experts had been disappointed of the barbour three aeroplanes of the Fictoria and Albert picked her way out Bright sunshine lay over the crowded waters, the most distant ships half hidden Fleet Air Arm manouvred gracefully in a summer haze. And then behind the above her tall masts. Then, as one's eyes strained upwards to watch the movements "Patríciu, in accordance with ancient rou-

tine on such State occasions, camo the of these By-catchers," as they are call- vessel of the King, on board being also ed, the sound of saluting guns broke on the Prince of Wales, and in attendance the quietness. In an instant clouds of the Commander-in-Chief of Portsmouth, down the waterway before the breeze." In smoke from the welcoming guns swept Admiral Sir Sydney Fremantle, descen a few moments the ships stood out, ngain dant of one of Nelson's "Band of bro- clear to the vision, each dressed overall thers" What a picture for tired eyes the with flags of many colours and emblema, Victoria and Albert presented as, in her but dominated by the White Ensign. fresh black and gold paint, with the Royal

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At last the first part of the King's ined once more towards the harbour mouth, Horse Fort, the picturesque chequered caught the faint notes of the National spection was ender The Patricia, with still preceded by the Patricia so named memorial to the excursions and alarms Anthem. And so ship by ship presented Capt Bir Acton Blake, Deputy Master after the daughter of the Duke of Con- of Palmerston's day, now little more itself for the inspection of the Sovereign of Trinity House, on the bridge, swept naught, the Master of Trinity House. than a navigation park, in spite of guna the officers in cocked hats and cere round to port, leading the Fictoria and When the turn had been made neroplanes and armour.

monial uniform, with its gold Ince, stand. Albert back between the rest of the Fleet appeared to act once more as escort to Behind, the Royal yacht steamed the ing at the salute, and the men lining lying on the Isle of Wight side of the the King. They flew high in a sky which. Admiralty vessel, the Enchantress, the the rails, immobile figures until the signal anchorage. Every minute some new and had become clouded by this time, their First, Lord of the Admiralty, Viscount came to cheer, and then the human factor strange form came into view. The grace. engines keeping up a droning bum; Chelinsford laying with him the Prime declared its ascendancy over all the deful Tiger, her war scars obliterated, coubeneath them two dying-boats took sta Minister i principal colleagues lientely fashioned steel and wood. The trasted with the bulk of the repair ship tion, now manoeuvring low and now high Their presence on the occasion, confront passage down the Fleet occupied almost Asistance, with its complete feet the strangest conception of the naval ed, as they were, with the steel avenues exactly an hour. That statement in laundry, and the weird shape of the air architect upon which the eye of man cam which give potenes to our diplomacy and self conveys some impression of the craft carrier Argus-the one funnelless ever have rested. Pecurity to our homes, must have re character of this assemblage of nearly 200 ship in the whole array. On her long. In this wise the day of pageantry came to minded, spectators that we are a peculiar ships anchored as closely together as broad dying deck were five aeroplanes, its close, and a little later saluting guna peopic, with a political philosophy, asso safely permitted. Battleships and cruisers awaiting only their pilots to ascend, and from within the harbour announced that ciated with an admirable tolerance and gave place to destroyera, aubmarines, and near by lay the Hermes, with another six the King had disembarked from the an enduring patience, which is entirely minesweepers, the last vessels reminis aeroplanes on her less spacious fring Victoria and Albert and was on his way our own. For here were the Labour craft carrier Argus-the one funnellers deck. For this aircraft carrier has a back to Buckingham Palace. The naval Socialist Ministers taking their place in Great War. There lay the great sal good deal of top-hamper of one kind and review at Spithead is now only a thing just other Ministers have done marines of the class, rearing their another, which looks as though it bad of memories, but what memories even tax other times, Whiga. Conservas bulbous heads like stoats, and there again slipped over to one side of the ship, but those of us whose minds leap back over tives, and Liberals. The conjunc destroyers of 30 knots or more, suggest it has, of course, been so placed in order the years to the Diamond Jubilee of.

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give room for the aeroplanes. Finally, | Queen Victoria, when other ships and ment and a Naval Review-filled the mind (Continued on next Column) The Royal yacht swept belween groups of 1 officura and men were at Spithead.

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