War!
A SIGNIFICANT NOTICE. SINISTER SUGGESTIONS. By Cable—Press Association-Copyright. Received 23, 1.10 a.m. Sydney, September 22. A Gazette notice to mariners announces, in connection with manoeuvres or in the event of strained relations between Britain and any other naval Power, vessels may be appointed to examine ships entering certain ports. The establishment of this examination service will never be advertised, but whenever relations are known to be in a state of tension a sharp look-out must be kept for the examination steamer. Seamen declare that this is the first notice of the kind issued here, and indicates the laying of mine fields. One master says that it is the first breath of tho war storm that is gathering in the North Sea.
Another says that vessels of certain nationality running to Australia have a reserve of coal to carry them a few weeks further dthan the journey stated. Extended leave has been cancelled in the British Navy for one year.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 108, 23 September 1912, Page 5
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160War! Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 108, 23 September 1912, Page 5
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