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Warships Show Flag In SW Pacific
IMPORTANT units of the Australian Navy will show ithe flag in the Southwest Pacific Islands in August and September.
HMAS “Australia” left Sydney on August 6 for Queensland ports. She is due in Port Moresby on August 29-31, and at Manus naval base on September 3-17; and she may visit other ports in New Guinea.
The light aircraft-carrier, HMAS “Syd ney,” and the destroyer, HMAS “Warra munga,” will leave Sydney about August 30, will join HMAS Australia at Manus about September 15; and the three ships will then proceed to Honiara, in the British Solomons, where they are due on September 20-22.
The Australian warships are due in Sydney about September 28: and, in Oc tober, they will be joined by the New Zealand squadron in exercises off the Australian coast.