GERMAN FLEET.
REPORTED ASSEMBLING. MORE ALLIED TROOPS JOIN UP; MELBOURNE, June 5. : rhe: American Consul received the following news- by wireless to-day • Washington. — A dsspatch received yefeterday from Copenhagen stated that the German fleet was gathering- off Heligoland. ■•■..■" | Ay Polish legion of 15,000 in the United States, and 2CO0 1 from South America, will join: the Allies' armies. They will serve with the French army as a separate unit, and carry their own flag, the -same as tho United States companies, and also the Stars and Stripes.- Their par will be only five; cents a day. Recruiting continues under the leadership of Paderswsky, the pianist. A contingent of Siamese troops has also joined the Allies. These are declared to be trained' fighting men, but their' number and location have not yet been disclossd. / {Word reached the British army chiefs a-'few days ago that the -German battleships are about to come/ out for* an en- ; gagemcnt. Rsar-Admiral Cleaves said U.S.A. had large numbers of first-clas? ( battleships prepming alongside the BritL i?h ships for a high spas engagement with the Germans;
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14634, 18 June 1918, Page 5
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179GERMAN FLEET. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14634, 18 June 1918, Page 5
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