NAVAL MANŒUVRES FOR 19,06.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8019, 4 January 1906, Page 2

NAVAL MANŒUVRES FOR 19,06.

USE OF THE JAPANESE F.LEET, It is slated that the Np lVa i Man. omvres for 190(1 will be 011 a Mcp scale than those of the po atnollcd] , ro . of last year, an.' ttU e Japanese fleet will, theoretically _ fom part of the scheme. The work will be bllseil on a pr ; n . ciplo quite new ir, llavul , maal)ij afld will test the Strang,,., w d twtW wlue of the new J! jirfbution of warships The sea fronts., of all our po S ses,i on 3 will come - Uo (110 sclumlCi aud tke , MudiUon., that might occur in a war' with a r. aV al eombinatiou will ho rehearsed simultaneously in the rariow zones, t! operations as part of one w »r plau. The supposition will be that strained relations exist, and the British aud Japnueso uavies are watching the ™omy's slups all over the world. Later, war will be assumed to ha Te broken out, and the rosorro dirisiOM will be mohilised. A sVel„|„ n armyof '•rukw will Uvo home waters with <v-aled ordc-s, and admirals and cap. <»'«* mil he kept „„ ,l.e ak , t fw weeks aganist this enemy. It will be the most searching tost of .'tuciciey ever devised, as aomo 0 f & 0 •omnuuders-in-chief will find themselves iu situation* of emergency de- ■ ittdment J