Show ROYAL CHRISTMAS CARDS HAVE HAVEAR WAR BEARING Br The Telegrams Telegram's S Special News Nees s LONDON Dec 9 9 For For the tae fifteenth year ear In succession Raphael Tuck Sons Sone Limited have ha prepared the royal Christmas cards Four are areto areto areto to be supplied this year one each for forthe forthe forthe the king and queen one one for Queen Alexandra and one for the prince of ot Wales ales Each card has a a. bearing on the war and all are singularly free tree from any express expression on of gayety garety or the tho usual merry merry merry mer mer- ry humor attending the Christmas season Tho The kings king's s 's card is entitled Silent Might and was painted by Bernard F F. Gribble Accompanying it is this While Britain's heroic armies fight tight ashore Britain's ships ward and watch upon the waters silent but mighty de defenders de- de fenders tendE-ra of ot the sanctity of ot the tho empires empire's island islan home of her commerce commerce commerce com com- merce on the boundless deep Ever on the a alert ert ever eager for action yet et patiently waiting waltinG untiringly watching Well rell may the British empire bo ho proud of ot her Sons of ot the Sea Queen Marys Mary's card is a picture of ot Queen Elizabeth reviewing re her troops at Tilbury painted b by Howard Davie The Inscription on the card is as follows When The Invincible Armada threatened England with In invasion n Queen Elizabeth reviewed her troops stationed at Tilbury under tho the Earl of ot Leicester and riding through the lines the queen appealed to the martial spirit of ot her soldiers and exhorted them to remember their duty uty to their country and their queen concluding her exhortation exhortation tation with the following noble words words- I I know that I have but one body of ot a weak and feeble woman but I have the t healt ot of a king S and ot of a king of ot England a land England Queen Alexandra's card is a R. picture entitled The Prince of ot Peace and na was as painted by Harriet SI II Bennet The prince of ot wales' wales card is a a. painting paint paint- I In ing of ot British and French knights by Howard Davie Da |