DUTCH NAVAL EXERCISES
TO BE HELD NEAR AUSTRALIA BATAVIA, 19th June. The Netherlands East Indian Navy will hold extensive manoeuvres in the Indian Ocean, south of Java, toward the Australian coast, in September and October, instead of in the northern seas of the East Indian Archipelago as formerly. The decision to change the venue of the manoeuvres has been due to anxiety to avoid undesirable attention from Japanese “fishermen.” Every kind of warship, including submarines, will lake part as if the navy was fighting an actual enemy. In the meantime, the laying down of mine fields and the building of wireless stations and air bases is proceeding in the northern seas. Defence officials at Batavia are delighted at reports that all British Royal Air Force planes in the Far East, including those at Singapore, will be replaced by modern Short Sunderland “flying battleships.” They declare that any improvements in the defences of the region | are welcome.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 14 July 1938, Page 10
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