NAVAL RESERVISTS
BRITAIN MOBILISING THREE MONTHS' SERVICE LONDON, June 20 Naval reservists are being mobilised in batches of 2500 for three months' service. Tho first group was called up last week. It is officially announced that the men are required to keep the reserve fleet of anti-submarino and minesweeping forces in a greater degree of readiness. 1 Tho volunteer wireless reserve is made up of 750 pensioners and 75 fishermen belonging to tho reserve patrol service. A number of retired naval officers liavo been called up.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 16
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86NAVAL RESERVISTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 16
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