BRITISH NAVAL EXPANSION.
I A THIRD BATTLE SeTJADStOIf. I I (Received 10.i> a.m.) LOXDOX, April 25. It is. announced that the third battls ' squadron will be composed nf eight warI ships of the. Kin? Edward VII. class, j while the crews of the. Formidables will ■ form a fifth or chief nucleus of a crew : for the squadron. This is interpreted as Great Britain's i reply to the formation of Germany's i third active squadron.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 100, 26 April 1912, Page 5
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