JOINT NAVAL EXERCISES
BRITISH AND UNITED STATES FORCES
WASHINGTON, February 14. Joint British and American naval manoeuvres will be held 60Q miles off the coast of Communist China in March, the United States Navy Department. announced to-day. ■ Tactical exercises will be carried 01ft by units of Britain’s Far Eastern Fleet and the United States N'avy, together with Air Force aeroplanes, in waters near the Philippines from March 4 to March 10. '
The exercises were described to-day as “routine”’ manoeuvres to familiarise the two nations’ forces in training techniques, also tactical and cornmunidatUjhS procedures. An American Navy spokesman said that the British ships which would par-ticipate-were understood to include the 13,350-ton aircraft-carrier Triumph and tile SOOO-ton cruisers Jamaica and Kenya. The American ships wouid be the 27',000-ton aircraft-carrier Boxer, the 14,000-ton heavy cruiser Toledo, and six destroyers.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 105, 16 February 1950, Page 6
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136JOINT NAVAL EXERCISES Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 105, 16 February 1950, Page 6
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