JOINT NAVAL EXERCISES
BRITISH AND UNITED STATES FORCES
MANOEUVRES OFF CHINA COAST
(Rec., 9.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 14. Joint British and American naval manoeuvres will be held 600 miles off the coast of Communist China in March, the United States Navy Department announced to-day. Tactical exercises will be carried out by units of Britain’s Far Eastern Fleet and the United States Navy, together with Air Force aeroplanes, in waters near the Philippines from March 4 to March 10. The exercises were described to-day as “routine” manoeuvres to familiarise the two nations’ forces in training techmques, also tactical and communications procedures. An American Navy spokesman said that the British ships which would participate were understood to include the 13350-ton aircraft-carrier Triumph, |nd the 8000-ton cruisers Jamaica and Kenya. The American ships would be the 27.000-ton aircraft-carrier , Boxer, the 14,000-ton heavy cruiser Toledo, and six destroyers.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26039, 16 February 1950, Page 5
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