ACHILLES LEAVES FOR JAPAN
RELIEVING CRUISER ‘ GAMBIA (P.A.) AUCKLAND, September.*; The cruiser Achilles left AU»M®r on Saturday for Japan. She will relieve the Gambia, which has been W®* Zealand’s naval representative • Tokyo since the surrender. ■ It has not yet been announced wf the Gambia will arrive at A u clU®*w which she has not visited *ince left last February in company the British battleship Howe. Although New Zealand sent 1 ship to Samoa during the MSU lion to help keep the peace, the first time New Zealand shipiW . been part of the occupation a defeated country. The is the first to leave Auckland for purpose. .
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24679, 24 September 1945, Page 4
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