YANGTSE GUNBOATS
BRITISH TRANSFERS SERVICE ELSEWHERE (British Official Wireless.) Rccd. 1.40 p.m. RUGBY, Dec. 13. The Admiralty announces that in October last, five of the gunboats of the Yangtse patrol were withdrawn from service because the officers and men were needed for important service elsewhere. It has now been decided that three more gunboats shall be withdrawn from the Yangtse for similar reasons connected with prosecution of war in Europe.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 6
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70YANGTSE GUNBOATS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 6
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