THE NAVY
A GREAT REVIEW
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received 12.55 a.m.) LONDON, November 2
Though rain and poor visibility disorganised the programme, fifty-four ships of the Atlantic Fleet provided, off Portland, one of the most spectacular events of the Imperial Conferoncers visit. Three hundred guests aboard the Nelson included Hon. G Forbes
At a luncheon, the Atlantic Com-niander-in-Chief, Sir Michael Hodges, expressed the hope that the demonstration would be some recompense for the hospitality that the Dominions always showed the Navy. The delegates saw how a modern warship cuts its way through a field of mines without sustaining damage, big gun practice, and air manoeuvres which included forced landings, and the destroyers ended n thrilling programme by bombarding CrewelPs wireless controlled targetship Centurian with fourjnch guns, at a distance of four miles scoring many good hits. The Centurian vanished in a smokescreen, almost miraculously thrown out by wireless control. Destroyers earlier provided a massed torpedo attack on tl>e Nelson but did not go within a hundred yards.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1930, Page 5
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