MOCK WARFARE
AUCKLAND EXERCISES
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, February 12,
Units of the Navy, Army, and Air Force combined for the first time in New* Zealand in large-scale exercises at the weekend. The manoeuvres were planned principally to test the fixed defences of the port of Auckland and a series of situations possible in a time of crisis was taken to exist, the defending forces co-operating in meeting them.
The guns and lights of the defences were manned continuously from noon on Saturday till noon today. The escort vessel Wellington represented in turn a friendly neutral, allied, and hostile vessel and, as an enemy ship, was engaged in a spectacular mock battle with three aircraft of the Auckland Territorial squadron and shore batteries.
Senior officers of the three services watched the manoeuvres.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 6
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