SOUTH AMERICAN AREA
JlMtisli Official Wireless.) RUGBY, 20th May. Tho British Admiralty announces that it has been decided that two of tho cruisers of the American and West Indies Squadron shall form a South American Division, to be under a Commodore of tho second class. These vessels will cruiso in South..American waters, and will join the main division of the squadron annually for exercises. It is intended that tho new arrangement shall take effect when IJ.M.S. Durban arrives on the station to relievo H.M.S. Despatch, probably in September next, and that the Commodore of the second class shall fly his broad pennant in the Durban. Captain LanePoolo has been selected for the post.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1931, Page 9
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113SOUTH AMERICAN AREA Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1931, Page 9
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