IN THE LAIR OF THE MOSQUITO FLEET
WHAT A PRESSMAN SAW London, January 11. At the Admiralty's invitation, a representative of the Australian Press Association visited an important baso. from which the "Mosquito Squadron" is in readiness at two minutes' notice to dart out. Target practice and training continues as in peace time, and war games are played with miniature- torpedoes. He saw trawlers, mine-layers, and mine-sweepers, with their attendant depot ships, aeroplane vessels, and other novel auxiliaries, representing the latest developments in'naval science.' lie squadron includes a uumberof the latest and speediest destroyers ( afloat, with flotilla leaders capable of outstripping any of the enemy's destroyers,, and light wuisorß, he inspected the Aretlmsa. She is saucy, for when she was completed she left dock, went to sea and fought an action ■oil August 2S, and was back in dock again in less than five days. The Arethusa is proud of her wounds. All the lioles are plastered with irfcn' plates. The visit was the happiest evidence of the readinoss of the fleet to "straff* any enemy vossels venturing iii tho cpen.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2668, 13 January 1916, Page 5
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181IN THE LAIR OF THE MOSQUITO FLEET Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2668, 13 January 1916, Page 5
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