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"Our .Fighting Navy." Last two nights of a picture that every person in Whakatane should see. ''Here is a fulLblooded story, ringing with authenticity. It concerns the activities of a British cruiser on a foreign station when a revolt breaks out among the populace. The rebels seize the Government cruiser, and. in retaliation for the British Consul's refusal to deliver up "the President. •diell the consulate. It is then that the British cruiser goes into action. At first, the captain, anxious to avoid trouble, steams between the rebel cruiser and the land, putting out a smoke screen, but when the rebels fire on the Britisher it is "action stations" and in five mniutes, the more powerful rebel cruiser is rent by two torpedoes. And there is 1:0 lack of excitement.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 18, 31 May 1939, Page 5
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