The Archive · 1937

Par Eastern Fleet

London, May 14.

The creation of a Far Eastern Fleet, at a cost of £70,000,000, will be discussed by the Imperial Conference, says Mr, Guy Eden, diplomatic editor of the "News Chronicle." This feet will guard the imperial raules from Africa to the Pacific Ocean and would, be as powerful as the Mediterranean Fleet, including a total of 100 units '—Afteen capital ships, two squadrons of cruisers and three flotillas of des~ troyers, formed by fusing fleets of the Dominions, the base being at Sin

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