"Rule Britannia"

Empire Day. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's father in law is Mayor Richard Annakin of Harrogate, famed "British spa.'' Both men are rugged pacifists. Last week Mayor Annakin cowed his City Council with an ultimatum. If they counted on him to take part in Harrogate's celebration of Empire Day (May 24), he said, they must strike the singing of ''Rule Britannia" off the program.

Empress of Britain. Seated on a workman's hoist at a Glasgow shipyard last week, H. R. H. Princess Mary rose vertically 100 feet in air, was swung onto the deck of the half-completed 40,000 ton Empress of Britain.

Since the Empress of Britain is the largest ship built in Britain since the War (though smaller than such post War leviathans as the French liner lie de France and Germany's Bremen and Europa) the British Royal Family is patriotically cooperating to secure maximum public notice. Thus Princess Mary announced herself "enchanted" last week, and next month Edward of Wales will superintend the launching.

To strike the Imperial note as resoundingly as possible, the new Empress of Britain will be painted in the same colors as the old Medina, which in 1911 carried George V and Queen Mary to India for their Durbar, namely white with a band of royal blue. Proudly the Canadian Pacific Line will announce their new ship as the largest on the St. Lawrence route to Europe. A brand new mammoth dock awaits her at Quebec.

Rainbow "R." First of the new "R" class of submarines now being built to replace 36 British subs which will become obsolete in 1932, is the Rainbow of 1,475 tons. With a real rainbow shimmering in the British sky last week, the dingy grey Rainbow was launched at Chatham. "Blue Water." Offers by the U. S. Battle Monuments Commission to erect beside the Thames a world War memorial to the U. S. Navy were favorably debated by the London County Council last week, but sharply criticized by the Admiralty's so called "Blue Water School'' of peppery old Admirals. Their favorite newsorgan. the Conservative Morning Post, made two points with asperity: first there is no memorial in London to the British Navy: second "the naval losses of the United States during the Great War cannot amount to much over two or three hundred men, but at the Battle of Jutland alone we lost 6,097." In point of fact U. S. Naval losses in men were 871.

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