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LOST NAVAL DRAWINGS.

A SIMPLE EXPLANATION. The alarmist stories of tho loss of 11.M.5. Suffolk's plans and their having bene copied are certainly not justified, says the Portsmouth correspondent of a London paper. The facts are that an officer of the ship made drawings of the cabin fittings for his own use, and lost them in tiio dockyard at Portsmouth, probably having dropped them out of his pocket. Not wishing to have to take the trouble to make fresh drawings ho reported the loss to the police, and they, as a section of the Special Service Department of Scotland Yard, informed headquarters. The drawings did not relate cither to the construction or the armament of the ship, and the authorities attach no importance to their loss. They would be of no value to a foreign Power.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 14

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LOST NAVAL DRAWINGS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 14

LOST NAVAL DRAWINGS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 14