SALUTES BY WARSHIPS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1725, 16 April 1913, Page 6

SALUTES BY WARSHIPS.

"DEEADNOUGHT" EEMINISCENCE. A canard was published nil over New Zealand ■ per Press Association relating to the absence of an artillery sa'ute wlitn, H.M.S. Neiv Zealand entered tlio port of Wellington on Saturday. • The reason why this was not done is fully explained elsewhere In this issue. In connection with Dreadnoughts and salutes, it may bo of interest to mention that a fiasco did really onco occur with our first steam Dreadnought. This happened in the "seventies," when that sh flying tho flag of H.E.H. tho Duko of Edinburgh, on entering the French port of Cherbourg, made tho uupleasaut discovery tliat she had no light guns with which to pay tho usual compliment. Tho grimmest salute in history is probuUy that of the ltussian battleship Tsarovitch, on entering tho German pore of Tsing-tao, after tho battle of Hound Island, on August 10, 1904. She had been heavily knocked about by the Japanese fire, and her decks in places boro terrible evidence of casualties, while every gunner on board had been at his gun for moro than 36 hours without a break, 'i'lio call of etiquette in these matters, however, is a strong one, and as tho battered ship came in tho Russians manned one of tho. 14-pouhders and duly and punctiliously saluted the German flag.