SOYA AND ASO.
TWO BATTLE-SCABBED CIIUISEKS. (By Telegraph-Press Association.) Auckland, January 2. The Japanese warships Aso and* Soya arrived from Fiji this afternoon. Tho Aso was formerly the Bayan and the Soya the Varyag, Russian cruisers, captured by tho Japanese in tho war with Russia. They are now on a training cruise for midshipmen. They leave here about January 8 for Sydney. [As indicated in tho incssago both cruisers are what tho Japanese term "blood ships." The Aso (ex-Bayan) was probably the slimmest plated ship ever turned out at the La Scyuo yards, Touloa. After a somewhat exciting career as a unit of tho Kussiun First Pacific Squadron, she passed into Japanese hands at the capitulation of Port Arthur. The Soya (ex-Varvag) is still a very fust steamer. She was sunk in Chemulpo Harbour on tho first day of the Ilusso-Japan-eio war, after having been severely handled by a Japanese detached squadron of which tho plated vessel Asama was flagship.]
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1327, 3 January 1912, Page 4
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160SOYA AND ASO. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1327, 3 January 1912, Page 4
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