BRITISH AND U.S. NAVAL EXERCISES OFF CHINA COAST
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Joint British and American naval manoeuvres will be held 600 miles’ off the co'ast of Communist China in March, the United States Navy Department announced today. Tactical exercises will be carried out by units of Britain’s Far Eastern Fleet and the United States Navy, together with Air Force aeroplanes, in waters near the Philippines from March 4 to March 10. The exercises were described today as “routine” manoeuvres to familiarise the two nations’ forces in training techniques, also tactical and communications procedures. An American Navy spokesman said that the British ships which would participate were understood to include “the 13,350-ton aircraft-carrier Triumph, and the 8000-ton cruisers Jamaica and Kenya. The American ships would be the 27,000-ton air-craft-carrier Boxer, the 14,000-ton heavy cruiser Toledo, and six destroyers.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 February 1950, Page 7
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