SPEEDING UP WARSHIP.
NEWS OF A FATHER’S DEATH. FRINGE’S KINDLY THOUGHT. LONDON, Oct. 21. H.M.S. Repulse is steaming at frill speed in an effort to reach Spithead in time to enable a wireless operator, Mr. Brandey, a son of Mr. Fred. Bramlcy, the Labour loader, who died at Amsterdam, to attend his father’s funeral on Friday. Mr. Bradley picked up in midAtlantic the broadcast news of liis father’s death, and the Prince of Wales ordered the commander to increase the Repulsb’s speed. Mr. Bramlcy’s body arrived in London covered with the Dutch flag, and is now lying in state at the Trades Union Council offices.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 November 1925, Page 9
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105SPEEDING UP WARSHIP. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 November 1925, Page 9
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