ADMIRAL SPERRY'S FLEET
THE SAILORS’ STRONGEST IMPRESSIONS. KINDNESS IN AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN AND A FIGHT IN NEW ZEALAND. United Props Association. Copyright (Received Jan. 18, 9.42 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. IS. Admiral Sperry’s men had very little shore leave since quitting China. The crews return home in much better shape than if the entertaining had been continued. Their greatest V impression, as the} 7 declared at Malta, was the kindness of Australians and Japanese and a fight in New Zealand, wherein they admiringly admit,, in lj||eir own words, “One Britisher licked six of ns.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2403, 19 January 1909, Page 5
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93ADMIRAL SPERRY'S FLEET Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2403, 19 January 1909, Page 5
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