NAVAL REVIEW

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 195, 17 July 1935, Page 7

NAVAL REVIEW

BY THE KING. A BRILLIANT DISPLAY. AIR ARM CO-OPERATES. t United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received July 17, 11.0 a.m. RUGBY, July 16. To-night 157 ships of the Royal Navy, as well as vessels of the Merchant Navy and fishing fleets anchored in the review area, off Spithead, were illuminated at the conclusion of tlio Jubilee review by the King. The signal for the illumination was given by a bouquet of rockets fired from the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert. When the Royal yacht had returned to her station at the head of the lines after the 11-milc cruise past the Elect this afternoon, the review ended with a fly-past by 115 aeroplanes of the Fleet air arm. About half a mile from the yacht each squadron went into a steep dive from 1500 ft and swooped down in perfect formation past the King on the bridge. The great spectacle had drawn an immense throng of people on the shores of the mainland and the Isle of Wight and high grounds. To-night Portsmouth, Southsea, and other seaside towns are in carnival dress.

More than a quarter of a million spectators, many wearing bathing suits, lined the twelve-mile waterfront. Punctually to the minute His Majesty began the inspection of the Fleet, standing on the bridge of the Victoria and Albert, with his three sons behind him. It was an 11-milo triumphal tour of the long, low decks of the Navy lined by Bluejackets. As the King approached each ship a bugle sounded and the crews took a pace forward and crossed hands on the rails. The Marines presented arms on the quarter-deck of the flagship. ilis Majesty was in a gay mood and laughed and chatted happily. The crowds ashore surged towards the water and many women were pushed knee-deep into the sea. The Mercantile Marine had not been represented at a naval review since the Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

To-morrow, unless the weather is unfavourable, the King, in the Victoria and Albert, will lead the Fleet to sea for exercises, including tactical movements, heavy gun firing at a towed target, 8-inch gun firing at a.wireless controlled target ship, and anti-air-craft firing at wireless-controlled Queen Bee aerial targets. CRASH BY ’PLANE. ON WAY ToApORTSAIOUTH. LONDON, July 16. Thousands bivouaccd beside their cars all night to witness the most spectacular naval review since the war. As tho sun dispersed the mists pennants fluttered from the mighty Hood to the tiniest pinnaces. Great liners crowded with sightseers steamed through the fleet before taking up their positions outside the lines. A special aeroplane chartered •byMessrs Vickers and da Costa, stockbrokers, to fly to the review, crashed after leaving Heston. Two were killed. The ’plane appeared to lose height immediately after rising from the aerodrome. It hit a hedge and caught fire. The pilotKarid five passengers escaped. Four of them are unconscious. The remaining two were trapped in the blazing machine. A SICKENING CRASH. Received July 17. 11.10 a.m. LONDON, July 16. Those killed in tlve aeroplane crush were Major Hobbs and Mr H. Newhouse. The pilot of another machine said he had not seen such a sickening crash. It was amazing that anyone had escaped alive.