The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-18

aAILL IN READINESS
FOR NAVAL REVIEW.
Il Will Be Biggest Feature OF
England's Coronation
Week.
BRITISH PRIDE HURT
People Do Not Relish Thought
Of United States Having
Biggest Battlesllip.
BRITISH PR
HURT
ny rnII.Llp EvEREI"r.

Is r.
5 ny PHILLIP EVERET"r
Especial Gable to The Times Dispatch.)
London, June l..-Evcrything is now
ready for the great international naval
review at Spithead on Saturday next
which is really the only really Inter
est!ng feature of the coronation. The
large British warships arc all anchor
eli iii their final positions since yes
terday afternoon. and tomorrow
and Tuesday the vessels representing
nearly all the nayics OF the world Will
arrive, each vessel being met by an
English navigating officer who will
conduct il TO its anchorage. The arr
rival OF the American squadron is
viewed with rather mixed feelings, for.
though the American visitors are UNI
douhtcdly more welcome than those OF
7 any other nation, IT hurts British
pride to see for the first time in the
history of international naval reviews.
q foreign battleship. the American
i Delaware. that is superior in lighting
power to anything England is able to
show. Even the German DrcadnouE hi,
Van der Tam is the equal of any
of the British vessels, while the French
battleship "Danton." is faster than
any OF the British ,battlcships.
i& The Austrian batileship Dapctsky is
of the same type as the Danton. but
carries four % guns less. She is OF
$4,000 tons displacement. and appears
10 he over gunncd for her size. Itai,
Is represented by the armorcd cruiser
Can Marco. Of o.S0n tons displace
ment, and carrying four ten inch and
eight I.5-inch guns. She is Il twenty.
three knotter. and the first turbine
ship Of the Italian navy In each Of
these cases the ship 10 be sent is the
very latest ship completed.
Beside the European Powers the re-
naming foreign visitors none of which
Is OF any particular Hghting value. are.
Argentina. Buenos Aires. Chile, Chaco
buco; China. HaiChi: Russia Rossya:
Span, Rena Rercnte; Sweden Fylgia.
Turkey, Hamidieth.
All OF these are protected or bclted
cruisers. Denmark. Holland and Nor
way are. respectively, represented by
the small coast defense battleships
olfert Fischer. Jacob van Heemskerck
and Eidsvold. 1t is possible that for
eisn visitors other than those officially
sent may arrive. For instance. Japan
Will have the Tone. and there are ru-
mors OF Italy sending the Nittorio
Emanuelo and the Reina Elena. and
that Chile may also send the EsmAr.
aida
The British fleet will be remarkable
for the number of Dreadnought bat
tleshiPs. There Will be the Colossus.
Hercules. Neptune, ST. Vincent. Col
l
meraire superb and Dreadnought,
making ten Dreadnought battleships
In all. In addition there will be the
four preadnought cruisers Indefatiga-
BILE. Invincible. lnfeX!hie and Indomi-
table. This last indicates the enor-
nous lead that England once hal in
: Drtadnoughts. hut II Is not 20 be for
Il gotten that in a very short while the
q number OF English Dreadnoughts will
be Inferior To the number owned by
the two mkt strongest powers. To de-
scribe the review. as the swan song of
British naval supremacy would be un-
duly pessmistic. especially in the
present circumstances: yet al the same
tine 1t IS Impossible TO avoid the re-
hection that for the first time in his
tory England IS holding review at
which she Is unable to say that the
British feet Is equal or superior TO the
two next strongest powers combined
Ireland will be well represented al
the coronation. as far as standard
hearers are concerned. The O'Connor
Don who VIII carry the standard %
ireland owes his position to the fact
that an ancestor was a firm ally Of
Queen Elizabeth. and fought In Ire
land on the English side, receiving in
" return: rewards and honors Lord
Piunket who is TO carry the standard
OF New Zealand, is also an Irish peer
No less than five peerages re held BY
the Plunket and Plunket families. VIZ.
FingaH. Louth. Plunket Dunsany and
Baltimore Those of Fingail and
n Louth are OF great antiquity
The colleges TO be chosen for the
Prince Of Walcs's varsity ca reer have
not yet been formally announced
though II is rumored he Will go first
70 Cambridge. II So il NAV be taken
for granted that he will become an
alumnus Of Trinity. The King ana
H Queen are great believers In the social
and educational value OF public school
and college life. and have no idea or
Following the ''coddling" methods 10
which some fond parents cling. For
this reason 1t is not intended that the
Prince OF Wales should be shut up IN
o separate establishment of his own.
TO emerge therefrom under the tu,clage
OF private cpach for the purpose OF
attending university lectures. Instead
of this he viii join in all the com
munal life OF his college, but may
have pied "A terre in the vicinity 10
which to retire for the week ends
The last few days the King has been
very busy in connection with the coro-
nation He sees every name, assigns
the actual quarters each person is .tc
occupy, decides who Is to he in at.
tendance, and how many servants are
TO be at the visitors disposal-evcr,
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