THE NAVY IN CHINA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3474, 30 April 1920, Page 3

THE NAVY IN CHINA.

A group of ten new wmsliips/. lleaclc-:1 by the light cruiser Colombo, has just left England for the China station. With the vessels which have all'o.'.ldy gone out tliesc will completely transform the British squadron in those parts, which will hence—forth be composutl of new ships and craft built during the war. There is one ilnpol*t:ut.tt diliici-mice he’swoCn the new Chiim Squadron mid tho. old, and that is the ‘dbSCIJcC- in the post-war command of any zn'moul'c<l ships, thanks to the 1-emoml of the (}:.‘l'xnun xm:-naric-. Before A.ug‘us‘[. 1914-, we In:lint.ailled two :I.l'nloul'od (‘,I'UISL'I'S 211141 :1. battleship in the Far East, as :1 set. off against the Selim-11lm1'.~t and Gneisnuu. In_ the mi-\\' squn.dl'ml, thl‘ light. ol'ui.s(‘l fill‘»\iiill'.~‘« is the largest 91:513.. " "-73 "'1 ‘ ‘

The ’rl:'reo alnzourod vesselswnn the <:i.ution in 191-} were all unlucky in the Wm’. The '].‘l'iumpll \v:ls~ sunk by a sub--111:11'i11l1 in the D:11'«lancl1es; the H:_l.mp.<hil‘o' was"¢losll*o_\'e¢l by :1. mine when B:11'1‘yi11g ‘Lord’ Kitclnenexfi to Russia; rmd the *l\Tinofiiur, although present at .'l'll’rl:md, did not got into action, and is NOW on flxcsale llSl.