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INTERESTING SIDELIGHT ON CADETS EDUCATION.

FIRST SEA LORD EXPLAINS THE TASK OF THE SERVICE.

In a ball which, though young ia | so applicable to the Royal Navy as point of years, is none the less re heretofore, and on Monday, at the dolent with the ageless traditions of invitation of the college authorities the British Navy, the First Sesa representative of "The Naval Lord (Admiral Sir Frederick and Military Record" was prosent Field) presented the term's awards. to the cadets of the Royal Naval for the first time at the prize-giving College, Dartmouth

ceremony, a ceremony porformed with naval precision and smartness, in the hall wherein the sons of the King have sat, as did the cadets.

Afterwards five hundred potential afficers of the Royal Navy sit cross- legged on the "quarter deck," as the college ball is called, while Sit Frederick spoke to them of the life and duties that were before them in an address that might well have been based upon the bold inscrip- tion which is engraved in carven Jettors across the building a Ben lence as true to-day as when the foundation stone of the collego was laid by King Edward VII. on March 7. 1007, and which ronds: "It is on the Navy, under the good provi- dence of God, that our wealth, prosperity, and peace depend."

The central figure in the hall, in- deed, is a statue of George V. in handsome while stone, flanked on either side by the colours of the college, presented in 1023 by Mrs. Amory, wife of the then First Lord of the Admiralty, and flanked again by portraits of King George V. and King Edward VII.

beautiful building which now stands high on the slopes: above, the estuary of the Dart, surrounded by the rolling hills of Devon, and with a glimpse of the sea between the wood-clad cliffs at the entrance to the river.

Royal Cadets. Treasured also on the quarter- deck is a letter encased in oak from the famous Victory, written in Lord Nelson's own handwriting to Lord Barham, the then First Lord of the Admiralty.

To the visitor, also, it is of ab sorbing interest to examine the photographs of groups of cadets,

In one

which adorn the walls." Around the walls are tablets bear- I group there stands on the stops of ing the names of famous sailors the college a slight, fair figure. It who distinguished themselves in is that of the Prince of Wales, who their training, as they did also in left. Dartmouth in 1911, and who their careers in the service, whilst whilst he was in residence lived the conspicuous also are two magai-life of an ordinary cadet, with the ficent models of Britannias of a past one exception that he had a private In recent years the term "Thenge, the training ships which were tutor with him. Silent Service" has scarcely been the precursors of the modern and

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World Theatre: "Love and Duty"! Kong C.C. v. Civil Borvice (Part 2 (Chiness-picture). '. Indian R.O.. Navy (F.); Division II, University. Police (L.), Royal Engineers v. Indian RC. (L.); Civil Servios . Hong Kong 0.0. (L.).

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