BRITISH NAVY CUT
OF THIRD BATTLE SQUADRON it"', ' (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)! ■ 1 r LONDON. Alay 6. Admiral Hyde’s 'Striking of .huh flag at Devonport donated the passing 'of the Third Battle Squadron under the London Nava! Treaty. H.AI.S. Iron Duke will In 1 disarmed, hut retained for non-combatant duties and H.AI.S. Alar!borough will lie sunk by gunfire by the Atlantic Fleet H.AI.S. Benbow and H.AI.S. Emperor of India will he broken up.
Their withdrawal, with H.AI.S. Tiger, leaves the Navy without a single coal-burning ship of importance, says B.vwater. in the “Daily Telegraph.” “Our armoured . slups&U include three battle ■ eruisef>V ’Ittouftllihg a total of 118 guns of sixteen and fifteen-inch cali re. The British flvfct has been reduced in twelve years in size of armament by exactly \iWothirds. Needless to sav, there f r.as i,. t 1 neon no such proportionate reductions in any other Navy in the snine'i,period.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1931, Page 6
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