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...possible. Such a dinner is Her Majesty's invariable precaution against queasiness of the stomach when she is in expectancy of taking a sea voyage. The soupless royal meal was served for the benefit of the Duke and Duchess of York. On the morrow they were to embark aboard H. M. S. Renown to visit Australia and there open the new Parliament Buildings at Canberra.±I In their absence Queen Mary will care for "Baby Betty"** (Princess Elizabeth) their eight-months-old daughter...
Sailors, arm-in-arm, lined the decks and guns of the Renown. Shrill boatswains' whistles piped as the ducal party stepped aboard. Then the standard of the Duke of York broke out at the masthead. Thunderous, a salute roared from the battleships Iron Duke, Marlborough, Benbow and Emperor of India. Humorously pat, the Renown's band blared: "The Girl I Left Behind...
Unprecedented. Aboard the Renown the Duchess and her two ladies-in-waiting* experienced the qualm of being not merely the only three women on a very big ship, but absolutely the only women who have ever been transported - except in emergencies - aboard a British ship of war. No maids are at their disposal. Their hair will be dressed by a marine especially educated for this duty by London coiffeurs (TIME, Dec. 27). They must subject their washables to the deadly friction of sailor scrubbing boards...
Evacuation. All British women and children in Hankow were rushed aboard warships in the harbor, and with them went 50 U. S women and children. The 150 Britons who were left slept together that night in a warehouse...
...late voyages. Underwriters issued regular insurance until midnight of Nov. 30 and special insurance to midnight of Dec. 12, to endure until vessels reached their ports. The Government did not officially close the river locks at the "Soo" until Dec. 16. As the Sainte Marie smashed the ice, sailors aboard the freighters* enjoyed themselves. Some went hunting, walking across the surface ice. Others played pinochle in the warm quarters provided for them. All fed well, said their masters. They were drawing two weeks' extra pay for doing nothing. A fortnight of this and the channel jam was cleared...