RUMOUR DENIED
NO DIS AFFECT lONS AMONG NAVAL CREWS. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright CANBERRA, December 9. The Assistant Minister of Defence (Hon. J. Francis) denies the rumours of disaffection among the crews of the destroyer flotilla voyaging to Australia, and now at Darwin. It is alleged that the victualling has been defective, and men without meat, as a large quantity of beef was jettisoned to prevent it going bad in j the intense heat. I The ships leave for Brisbane to-day. | They will probably secure flsh by using depth charges when they get to sea. j
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19670, 12 December 1933, Page 11
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