FLOATING DOCK
IN TOW FROM RUSSIA JAPANESE SUSPICIOUS SINGAPORE. May 26 A 6000-ton Russian floating dock is at present lying in the Roads off Singapore. ihe Japanese claim that the dock is to be based at Petropavlovsk, in Kamchatka, for the use of Russian submarines and othor naval craft. The dock is certainly bound for Petropavlovsk from Nieolaeff Island, in the Black Sea, where it was built, but tho Russians state that it is to ho used to repair ships of the Soviet fishing fleet in Kamchatka, waters. Russian officers or men on the steamer Kharkov, which is towing the dock, refuse to give any information, and nobody is allowed on board. Two tugs and two large steel lighters are being carried tho whole journey—--10,000 miles—inside the floating dock.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23057, 7 June 1938, Page 12
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129FLOATING DOCK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23057, 7 June 1938, Page 12
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