GREAT NAVAL REVIEW.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1489, 11 July 1912, Page 5

GREAT NAVAL REVIEW.

223 WARSHIPS TAKE PART,

thy Tclcsraph—Frcss Association—Copyriehl London, July 9. ■

The ;Naval Koview at Spithead, which Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, rccenUy l stated would be tho greatest ever Been in tho history of tho world, was held to-day. • , The vessels taking part in the review numbered 223, their aggregate cost being .£112,000,000. The lines extended for a distance of thirty mile.s Members of tho House of Lords and Commons witnessed the review from the leeks of tho Union Castle Mail Steam Shipping Company's liner Armadale 7astle; and the pressmen from another jteamer. . . [ During tho review there wore hydroaeroplane flights, attacks by submarines : and the discharge, of torpedoes by torpedo boats.- . , AVIATOKS 'DETEOT SUBMARINES.. (Kec. July 10, 10.30 p.m.) London, July 10. . The Primo' Minister, Mr. Asquith, and Mr. Churchill, First Lord of the Adwere present at the Spithead review aboard' tho Admiralty yacht Enchantress, and in company with numbers of members of Parliament boarded the newest battleships and ( cruisers. ' Enormous crowds gathered at vantage fcoints, and there Wro also thirty thous- '. find spectators afloat. 'l'hero was great interest in. the air- : hieii's exploits.: Aeroplanes were used' for scouting, and two hydro-aeroplanists discovered and reported by wireless the presenco of submarines. \ v'. . During the manoeuvres tho periscope of lubmarino Dl, in which tho Kins voy--1 6ged under water at Woyniouth recently, ■ )ffas : considerably bent by colliding with i, dinghy. The departure of the fleet in a stately procession seawards was the most mem- ■ owble spectacle of the. day, /';. .