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INSPECTION BY VISITING DELEGATES. THE POST-WAR FLEET. Pnm AMooifttion—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 3. , (Received Nov. 5, at 1.5 a.m.) In fine weather with a strong breeze Mr Amery, Mr Massey, Mr Bruce, Mr MacKenzie King, and three hundred distinguished guests inspected oil Spithead the Atlantic fleet of 70 ships all built since 1914, assembled in live long lines totalling lb miles. The Prime Ministers and others aboard the minelayer Princess Margaret: steamed through the lines of vessels with massed bauds playing. Vice-admiral Sinclair’s flagship Queen Elizabeth lired a salute as members of the dominions passed, lire Prime Ministers were particularly interested in the latest battle cruisers flood and Repulse, which ate going on an Empire cruise, and also the Argus, carrying 20 aeroplanes. In the course of the afternoon's programme the destroyers advanced to attack the dominion Prime Ministers’ vessel, and the whole fleet subsequently developed evolutions within a 10-mtle radius, after which the Prime Ministers returned to Portsmouth. —Router.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19010, 5 November 1923, Page 8
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162NAVAL REVIEW. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19010, 5 November 1923, Page 8
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