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...Gothic passenger terminal topped by a tower bearing the arms of the City of New York. Prime mover was Cherbourg Chamber of Commerce President Camille Quoniam, who has long worked to popularize the works of U. S. Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson in France. Last week Cherbourg's new roadstead covered 3,500 acres of 42 to 46 ft. water. It was already fit to dock most transatlantic liners. The North German Lloyd's Europa & Bremen, the White Star Line's Majestic, the Cunard Line's Aquitania & Berengaria will continue to use tenders until the flanking moles...
...Chamberlain forgotten that Hongkong-"place of the sweet lagoon"-was the perfect sapphire in Queen Victoria's crown? Where else did such a roadstead curve so lustrously about the skirts of such island hills? This island, 29 square miles, had been England's since 1842, her Pacific Gibraltar, her Pillar of Hercules between the Torrid and the Temperate Zones, her trademark on the map of China...
...recent years the Chileans have been dominant in the strip which they have held by force, and feeling is tense as the time for a plebiscite approaches. In the roadstead of the town lay last week...
Seventy-two ironclads swept past the visiting Dominion Premiers at Spithead, the roadstead off Portsmouth. It was the first Royal Naval review to be held since July, 1914. It was also said to have been " the smallest number of naval vessels mustered at a formal British Fleet review...
...Cherbourg the Majestic, Minnedosa, Empress of Britain were obliged to heave to outside the roadstead for 24 hours. The Dover-Calais and Folkestone-Boulogne Channel services were held up for a day. The wireless installation at L'orient, Brittany, was smashed to pieces and two gargoyles of the famous Gothic courthouse at Rouen were torn off by the wind and hurled to the street...