GREAT SPECTACLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18760, 17 July 1935, Page 5

GREAT SPECTACLE

JUBILEE NAVAL REVIEW-

WAR SHTPS ON PARADE

HUGE CROWDS ASSEMBLE

(British Official Wireless.) Rec. noon. 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 Spit head, were illuminated at the conclusion of the Jubilee review by the King. A signal for the illumination was given by a (bouquet ot rockets fired from the Royal yacht, Victoria and Albert, when the Royal yacht returned to its station at the head of the lines, after a 10-mile cruise past the fleet this afternoon.

The review ended with a fly past of 115 aeroplanes ot' the fleet air arm about half a mile from the yacht. Each squadron went into a steep dive from '.."iiOii. and swooped down in perfect formation past the King on the bridge. The great spectacle had drawn n great throng of people on the shores of the mainland and (lie Isle of Wight and nigh ground' overlooking 'he sea. To-night, Porismotlthy- South'en, and other seaside towns'-are in ■avnlvaT mood.

To-morrow, unless the weather is unfavorable, the King, in the Victoria

,-i-.d Alberl will lend (ho fie. | in sea for exercises, including tactical move- ■ i :its. heavv gun firing at a lowed

'argot. .Sin. gunflring at a wirelesscontrolled target ship, and anti-hireratl Sring at the wireless-controlled Queer. Bee .aerial targets. Thousands bivouaeed besides cars all night long to witness the most spectacular naval review since the war.

As the sun dispersed the mists, pennants fluttered from the mighty Hood down to the tiniest pinnaces. Great liners, crowded -with sightseers. steamed through the fleet before taking up positions outside the,lines.