NAVAL MANOEUVRES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10632, 10 May 1912, Page 5

NAVAL MANOEUVRES

MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY.

KING GEORGE IN COMMAND'

(Received' May 9, 9 itii.m.)

LONDON, Miay 8

The Naval manoeuvres are being held in. Weymouth Bay. There' aire 120 warships taking part, the King being.in connriamd. The ships,., /nlhfieh have be'en. disposed in five avenues each two miles 'king, comprise the First, Second, Third, and Fifth 'Battle Squadrons, valued at seventy million; pounds. There have been, demonstrations by aeroplanes' and the. Latest •also of 13.5 guns. abandoned owing to fog. triumph of ..aval hydroplans. . (Received This Morning, 12.3-5 o'clock. LONDON, May 9. A ifbgi necessitotied the abandonment of'the fleet exercises' yesterday, and including,.the might torpedo manoeuvres. Thei King inspected itih'e principal ships. The feature of th"e manoeuvres was ihp ttrramph r'f the niaval hydroplane S.V., which possesses wonderful sta~ Ibilclty, and rises and alicfbts equally on. iMrid ; amdi 'water, .and is .ablie to remain', in the air seven lioHiira. '. T.t atta'iris a ispeed of 55 miles per hour, and it is possible to drop ifrom n't SCO pou.nr'& *">? hii'P'h explosives. It Is niliso 'fitted: with wireless, apparatus. Th.?' Adm-lrailty l has decided to increase ,th? hydroplanes to 25,