FATE OF H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA.
"NOT YET DECIDED."
(BT CABLE—MESS ASSOCIATION—COPYMOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received August 31st, 10.45 p.m.) MELBOURNE, August 31. It is officially denied that the battlecruiser Australia will be broken Up. Her fate has not yet been decided. [The Washington Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Armament specific* ally' mentions H.M.A.S. Australia as one of the British ships to ba "scrapped." The Treaty prescribes the following rules for the scrapping of vessels. A vessel to be scrapped must be placed in such a condition that it citn'not be put to combative Use. This result may be effected by (a) permanent sinking of the ship; (b) Breaking the vessel up, and (c) converting the vessel to target use exclusively.]
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17857, 1 September 1923, Page 15
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