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THE

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SATURDAY, MAY TELEGRAPH.

1937.

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FAMOUS SHIP'S LAST VOYAGE

MAJESTIC IS NOW

WORLD'S GREATEST SEA BARRACKS

Southampton, Apr. 25. Alongside the new docks nt Southampton, the ex-Cunard White Star liner Majestic, the largest British merchant ship except for the Queen Mary, is being prepared for her Inst voyage.

ship was built as the German liner Blamark.

The Arat-class dining saloon will be the dining hall for the 1,200 boys undergoing the general course, while the tourist dining saloon is the mess room for 500 artificer apprentices.

To-morrow at 8 am, she will leave for Rosyth. She will go under her own steam, although only eight af hier 32 bollcra are in action.scar Theso will give her a speed of 20 knots.

She will be commanded by Captain Binks, who commanded the ship when she was a luxurious Atlantic liner. Just below the Forth Bridge the Majestic will be taken over by the Naval, authorities, and she will be commissioned on April 23 Captain Sir Atwell Lake as H.MS. Chiedonia.

The green tiled. swimming-bath has been fitted to teach beginners; the first-class lounge has become the scamen-boys recreation room with canteen, bookstall, library, and soda cust fountain. The great panelled smoke- ing room has become a gymnasium with a boxing ring and all monner of apparatus, which can be stored away if the room la wanted for a concert. It has a parquet floor.

The ship has a complete hospital with 200 beds. There is operat- bying theatre with all the latest ap- pliances and a complete dental de- partment, which will be staffed by Oye dental officers,

At present the Majestic is an al- most nameless ship. Her name has been painted out, and no new name substituted; nor is she to-day re- cognisable as the great liner which carried so many thousands across

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She is a queer, truncated ship. Her masts and funnels have been cut to allow her to pass under the Forth Bridge, and at Intervals along her port side are enormous eyebolts atted with the heavy chain cables which will secure her in the main basin of Rosyth Dockyard.

For seven months the Majestie has been in the hands of Messrs. John

I. Thornycroft, during which she has been converted Into an accommnoda- tion ship for the new novel training establishment at Rosyth. The alter- ations have cost about £500,000. To-day I went over the ship, and saw how these alterations have made her the most complete floating borracks In the world.

The first boys for training are to join on May 10; from that time they are expected to join at the rate of 30 per week, When the Caledonla is full she will accommodate 2,000 boys in addition to the offers and

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ARCHBISHOP — Luis M. Mar- tinez, appointed by Pope Pius na Archbishop of Mexico. This makes him hend of the Catholle church in the religion - torn country. He recently arrived in Mexico City from the United States to begin his work.

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THE Spanish civil war has obscured an important

change on the map of Europe.

A now republic has arisen, with a population of over a rillion and its history lost way back in the mists of time.

It is the Basque Government, with its headquarters at Bilbao. Although they are supporting the Spanish Government against the Nationalists they have a completely autonomous government.

They are going ahead rapidly with ambitious schemes, and the Basque University has already been founded.

The Basque people correspond to cient in Europe. Nobody knows

where their race had its origin. the Welsh of Britain.

To-day, the great Carlton Hotel has been turned into the presidential offices.

Their language, quite different from Spanish, is one of the most an-

ALL MEMORIES OF EDWARD REMOVED IN YORK HOUSE, GLOUCESTER'S HOME

Boys, on joining, will, in the first two weeks, be fitted with uniforms, be vaccinated and Inoculated, undergo dental treatment, where

London, Apr. 20. necessary and learn their way about. The Duke and Duchess of Glou- Then for a further four weekscester, "deputy king and queen," they will undergo preliminary train soon will move into their new quar- ing, consisting chiefly of first lessons ters, York House, St, James's Palace. in naval discipline and elementary formerly the Duke of Windsor's squad drill. Thereafter they will much beloved bachelor establish- undergo the general course of

ment. wecks, at the end of which they will be drafted to ships of the Fleet.

Boys selected for advanced classes train- undergo somewhat longer ing; boys of the general course will be divided into forecastle, fore top, main top, and quarter deck divisions, as is the crew of a seagoing ship. Each division has its special colour, which lockers and hammock

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The abdication of Edward had no- thing to do with change-over, though it was at York House that Edward staged his famous party when Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his wife first met Mrs. Wanis. Simpson, and, so to speak. placed that lady on the map.

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The ship has been arranged so that will have to live below the

nobode, and has been divided into

complicated been overhauling the wiring system Edward installed in House the most making York modern and comfortable royal quar- ters.

been re-dyed to harmonize with the Duchess's colour schemes.

of

Since St. James's Palace is a royal residence, whose maintenance is the care of

of the state, painters, decorators, plumbers from and

the Omce Works have been carrying out tha alterations, without a penny of cost coming of the none-too-large pocket of the Duke.

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One of their most difficult jobs has It was arranged that the Glouces

considerable ters should go to York House scon

the Duke will Since amount of entertaining to do, parti- Queen Mary was

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bo room on the second floor will pany occupy the fore part, the whole Gloucesters, too, had to move out of scenes of some brilliant functions. centre section is for reamen-boys,

The Duke and Duchess will have and the after end will be occupied by the Duke's bachelor quarters in the

occupied their private rooms on the second artificer apprentices under training, Palace, which they had

floor, and downstairs they have set aside rooms for their secretaries, equerries and ladies-in-waiting.

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of whom there is accommodation for since their wedding in November, York House has been redecorated and refurnished for the

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In all the steeping quarters for the boys, cabins have been replaced by large and airy decks with hammock couple, Recently, the Duchess, who slinging accommodation and lackers. has been staying with Queen Marry, Petty officers, chief petty omcers, has spent all her free afternoons in

specting her new home. and officers have cabins.

Many cabins have been converted into offices and class-rooms.

The captain's cabin is the suite designed for the Kalser when the

Sir Godfrey Thomas, who acted for so many years as accretary to the Prince of Wales, again will occupy his old quarters in his new post of secretary to the Duke and Duchess. Ousting virtually every memory of The rooms formerly used by the Edward's residence there, even the Duke of Kent, as Prince George, will new carpets he chose shortly be-form part of the Duchess's 'private

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