Whilst King George V was busy at the inspection of the Royal Navy (“this has been a day of ineffaceable memories” starts the report on pages 11 and 12, whilst a picture of him on HMS Queen Mary on page 14 proudly notes it is the only ship in the world to have a permanent church, steam, laundry and cinematograph, but also has no police) it appears that he was also seeking to assist in trying to achieve a resolution to the Ireland crisis.