MIMIC BATTLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 138, 13 June 1929, Page 9

MIMIC BATTLE.

NAVAL MANOEUVRES

N.Z. Cruisers Fare Badly In

Australian Attack.

EXERCISES MAY BE YEARLY.

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

SYDNEY, this day.

The mimic battle waged during the week-end by the combined Australian and New Zealand squadrons off the Queensland coast has established the value of combined exercises. It is reasonably certain that the two squadrons will combine in important manoeuvres each year.

Arrangements are already being made for a vist by the Australian ships to the Dominion next year. The Dunedin and the Diomede arc now anchored at Hervey Bay with the Australian ships and preparations arc now being made for exercises on land at Eraser Island.

The Australian squadron frustrated an attack by the Dunedin and Diomede, and the two cruisers limped into Hervey Bay, metaphorically licking their wounds.

Cruisers, destroyers, submarines, a seaplane carrier and four seaplanes took part in the encounter. An imaginary battle was the most important of the exercises- of the present cruise. There was a complete wireless silence between the ships, as they were working under war conditions. The battle developed into an exercise in shadowing.