INEVITABLE FATE
END OF THE AUSTRALIA
CEREMONIAL SINKING TODAY
r .'(UNITED .PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) J- ':3" SYDNEY, llth April: The.warship Australia goes to her grave to-morrow. Despite many "protests, the Minister of Defence persists in:his deoision, and she will,,bo sunk .twenty miles;off the .Heads. 'This decision, has been endorsed by Admiral Field,- who . declared; that' it was inevitable under the terms of the 'Washington. Conference. .Besides* the warship would be worth very little for. i shipbreaking purposes. The Australia.has been dismantled as ; far ■'• as : removable portions are cQiicernedj'and is practically a hulk. With herwilligo certain~l2-inch guns sent out for-Tfe-arming purposes, which have lain in the naval dockyard for years, and,were never * placed on board. s - .. ; .-■ ,■;-■■> "... Many /■ be^iitifuly floralf emblems 'from clubs and ' other bodies", and personal floral tributes ■ have been ' placed on board. That from the Millions Club' is inscribed: "In loving- memory of the defender of Australia's Millions."- .
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Evening Post, Issue 88, 12 April 1924, Page 7
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148INEVITABLE FATE Evening Post, Issue 88, 12 April 1924, Page 7
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