AN UNPARALLELED FLEET.
.ADMIRAL FISHER ENTHUSIASTIC. , "BRITONS MAY SLEEP 1 UNDISTURBED." Received November 11, 10.16 p.m. , LONDON, November 11. Speaking at Guildhall, Admiral Fisher, responding to the toast of the Navy, declared that he was unable to find anywhere so fine a fleet as the 26 battleships and 23 cruisers that had just finished manoeuvring in the North Sea. "Yet," said the Admiral. "that is only a fraction of our power." The gunnery work and efficiency of the fleet was, he said, unparalleled, surpassing all records. The fleet, he contended, woulh be ready in an instant for war, so the British might sl°ep quietly in their beds undisturbed by the bogey periodically resuscitated by all sorts of leagues. I
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8878, 12 November 1907, Page 5
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119AN UNPARALLELED FLEET. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8878, 12 November 1907, Page 5
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