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This month that saltiest monarch, beloved King George, who swears unprintable quarter-deck oaths exclusively, has been working up through the Royal Air Force and the Army to the final and greatest pageant of his Silver Jubilee year, the naval review last week at Spithead, off Portsmouth. "Fly Past/- Three brand new Baby Rolls-Royces were at His Majesty's disposal when he went down to Mildenhall, Suffolk, to view some $5,000,000 worth of fighting aircraft which had nearly burned up in a huge grass fire night before. Stepping into an apple-green Baby Rolls, and wearing...
Died. Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox. 64, eighth Duke of Richmond, Lennox, Gordon and D'Aubigny, head of a house founded by a bastard son of King Charles II and the Duchess of Portsmouth; at Goodwood, England. Lord of 250,000 acres (including famed Goodwood race track and a forest in which, traditionally, no birds lived), he was crippled by spinal meningitis during the War, got about in a nifty wheel chair...
Last year Mr. Lyons right cordially received Their Majesties' third son, the Duke of Gloucester, in Australia. Last week he watched a special train draw in from Portsmouth, carrying Gloucester up from the Australian battle cruiser Australia which had just delivered him safely home to England. After an absence of seven months, Gloucester's respectful first move was to try to kiss the Queen-Empress' hand but his mother advanced, welcomed him with a majestic hug & kiss. That night King George conferred upon Gloucester the grand cross of the honorary order of St. Michael and St. George...
From a court martial there is no appeal. Month ago Captain Henry Richard Sawbridge of H. M. S. Renown marched stiffly into a courtroom in Portsmouth dockyard and saw that his sword lying on the judges' table had its point toward him in token of guilt. He was retired on half pay and dismissed from his ship as responsible for the strange collision in mid-ocean between the huge battle cruisers Hood and Renown. Rear Admiral Sidney Robert Bailey, in command of the maneuvers, and Captain Francis T. B. Tower of the Hood, also court martialed, were acquitted (TIME...
From the old fort above Portsmouth dockyard a gun boomed out last week, and the Union Jack broke from the halyards of Admiral Nelson's famed old wooden flagship, the Victory. In the courtyard before the barracks honor guards of bluejackets and Royal Marines snapped to present arms as nine high officers, walking stiffly in the epaulets and cocked hats of their full dress uniforms, entered the building to hold an exciting court martial...