QUEEN ENTERTAINS
SHIP’S CREW INVITED TO CINEMA SHOW GUNNERY EXHIBITION GIVEN BY CRUISERS. ANTI-AIRCRAFT PRACTICE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, May 11. Specially invited by the Queen, stewards, stokers and firemen crowded the main dining-room of the Empress of Australia last evening for a cinema show which included two Walt Disney cartoons and Gordon Harker’s "Return of the Frog.” Some wore civilian clothes and others their working kit. Their Majesties, in the afternoon, watched the escorting cruisers showing off their gunnery efficiency. H.M.S. Southampton put up a smoke and shell cloud, which the cruiser’s anti-air-craft gunners peppered, white puffs marking hits. LINER IN FOG FREQUENTLY HOVE TO. i (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 11. The Empress of Australia encountered heavy fog. Her maximum speed was ten knots in good patches. Frequently she hove to.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1939, Page 5
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135QUEEN ENTERTAINS Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1939, Page 5
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