SQUADRON IN SYDNEY
BRILLIANT ENTERTAINMENT
GREAT FIREWORKS DISPLAY.
(CXITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)' , \ SYDNEY, 11th April. The city maintains its holiday aspect in honour of the fleet, and is doing its best in the way of entertainment to give Jack, as well as his superiors,, a royal, welcome. The streets"ara crowded with visitors, many of whom are adding fleet week to their usual Easter sojourn. _ A feature of to-night's fleet celebrations was a gorgeous fireworks display provided by the State Government on the harbour, combined with a Venetian carnival and shore illuminations by the North Shore Council. The play of the squadron's powerful searchlights added to the spectacular efJoets. There were dense crowds round the harbour foreshore and the roofs and other vantage places in the city. A gunnery officer of the Hood boasts that, standing ten miles. off Sydney, tho vessel's 15-inch guns, with the help of the smaller armaments, could practically destroy Sydney in less than half an hour. ,
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Evening Post, Issue 88, 12 April 1924, Page 7
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159SQUADRON IN SYDNEY Evening Post, Issue 88, 12 April 1924, Page 7
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