The Archive · 1936

British Movements

London, July 22.

British fleet movements include the despatch of a cruiser to Barce-Jona and another to Palma, in Majorca' island, The cruiser Amphion, which left England yester-@ay to join the Africa Station, has eon ordered to Teneriffe, in the Canary Islands, while the battle-cruiser Repulse' is embarking the Gordon Highlanders at Alexandria and returning to Gibraltar, Four British warships are already in Spanish ports ready to evacuate British subjects should the necessity arise, They are the flotilla leade Keppel and the destroyer Whitsl ut Vigo; the destroyer Shamrock, at Malaga, and the destroyer Whitehall at Tangier, in Spanish Morocco The cruiser Devonshire has proceeded (0 Palma while the cruiser London is nearing Barcelona where she will be Joined to-morrow by the submarine flotilla leader Douglas and the destroyers Garland, Gipsy and Gallant. The destroyer Boadicea has been despatched to Alicante, while the destroyer Basilisk: is proceeding to Almeria.—Reuter,

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