THE BRITISH NAVY.
.'RESERVE SQUADRON MOBILISA--TION. AUSTRALIAN COAL WANTED. LONDON, February 18. A British Reserve Squadron of six battleships and several cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir Compton "E. Domville. Admiral Superintendent of the Naval Reserves, has been ordered to mobilise on March Ist for a month for torpedo gunnery exercise. The British reserve fleet is now engaged in coaling. In the House of Commons Mr McCartney, Secretary to.the Admiralty, said that owing to high price of coal in Britain the Admiralty was consideriiiooffers of Australian coal.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 42, 19 February 1900, Page 5
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