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(Received July 10, 11 a.m.)
LONDON, July 9. ( The naval review at Spithcad, which' Mr Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, recently stated would be the greatest ever seen in the history of tho world, was held to-day. Tho vessels taking part in tho review numbered 223, their aggregate cost being 112 million pounds. Tho lines extended for a distance of thirty miles.
Members of tho House of Lords and Commons witnessed the review from the decks of the Union Castle Mai! Steam Shipping Company's liner Armadale Caisble," 12,973 tons, and the pressmen from another steamer. During the review there wero hydroaeroplane flights, attacks by submarines., and tho discharge of torpedoes.by torpedo boats.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10684, 11 July 1912, Page 5
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132NAVAL REVIEW Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10684, 11 July 1912, Page 5
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