DUTCH FLEET
RECONSTRUCTION BEGUN THOUSANDS OF MEN ESCAPE FROM INDIES. BROADCAST BY QUEEN WILHELMINA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, March 16. Queen Wilhelmina disclosed in a broadcast that the first steps for reconstruction of the Dutch fleet had begun and that the battle would continue from more distant bases, though some Dutch warships were still in action in the waters around the Netherlands East Indies. The fact that some thousands of the men of the Dutch Navy escaped from the Netherlands East Indies made it possible to make an immediate start in the work of reconstruction of the Navy, by the purchase of new vessels. “Thus we shall continue to fight shoulder to shoulder with our allies, straining all our resources,” concluded the Queen.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1942, Page 4
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128DUTCH FLEET Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1942, Page 4
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