BRITISH NAVY
THE SPRING MANOEUVRES IN THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN £BriMah Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telogiaph—Copyright, RUGBY, March 18. The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr W. C. Bridgenmn) will at the end of the week proceed to Gibraltar on a short visit. to the Mediterranean and Atlantic Fleets, which are this week engaged in the usual spring exercises, which*since the wav have replaced the old-time summer naval manoeuvres. They are to take place in the Western Mediterranean, between Sardinia and the Straits of Gibraltar. About 100 ships of different categories and over 30,000 officer? and men will bo engaged. In the Mediterranean Fleet the battleship Queen Elizabeth carries the flag of Admiral Sir Frederick Field, the Com-mander-m-Chief, and in tho Atlantic Fleet the battleship Nelson carries the flag of Admiral Sir Hubert Brand, the Cqmmander-in-Chief.
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Evening Star, Issue 20129, 20 March 1929, Page 5
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