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— MANY BRITISH' WARSHIPS NEAR MALTA i > , Almost Entire Mediterranean Fleet By Telegraph. —Press Association. —Copyright. (Received This Day, ait Noon.) LONDON, April 17. Almost the entire British Mediterranean Fleet is in the neighbourhood of Malta, including- the battleship Glorious, ,six cruisers, thirty-nine destroyers, seven submarines', six torpedo beats, ten mine-sweepers, six depot ships, one escort ship, one net-layer and one mine-layer. STRAITS PATROLLED (Received This Day, 12.35 p.fn.)' GIBRALTAR, April I’7. The Terrible and Fantasque are patrolling the Straits. The destroyers Boulonnais, Foudroyant and Brestois have arrived here. WATCH ON TANGIER Possibility of Totalitarian Move (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) PARIS, April 17. The possibility of a totalitarian move against Tangier is believed to be the reason for the concentration'. It is reported that there are large numbers' of Italian sailors in Tangier, although there is no warship. FRENCH FORCES Thirteen Fighting Ships at Gibraltar (Received This Dav, 11.0 a.m.) GIBRALTAR, April. 17. French warships at Gibraltar now total 13. They comprise two battleships, three cruisers and eight destroyers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1939, Page 6
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