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Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1927, Page 4

72FT EI'DDHA. TOKiO. March 5. A lighthouse donated to tlit- port id Fagoya. 75 miles N.K. To Kyoto, to be dedicated in .May. is in the unusual shape ol a .lingo Buddha cast in c i rote. The Buddha is in the ennveutional form, along the lines ot the famous bronze Buddha at Kamakura, but larger. The immense concrete statue is 72 foot'high and 52 feet in girth, in its forehead, where the ordinary Buddha has a jewel. there jug sot a 10,000 candle-power electric iignt, shining out over the harbour, 'ibis Buddha, the largest in existence, is the gift of Mr Saikichi \ aniuda, who as an official of Xagoya had much to do with modernising the port.

SO WARSHIPS. GIBRALTAR, March 4

A most imposing spectacle was provided here by the arrival of the Mediterranean Fleet, composed of the First Battle Squadron, the Third Cruiser Squadron, three destroyer flotillas and a submarine flotilla under, Adm. Sir huger Keyes, and the Atlantic Fleet under Adm. Sir Henry Olliver, composed of the Second Cruiser Squadron and two destroyer flotillas.

At present more than 80 vessels ot the fleets are concentrated in the harbour. Never before in the history of Gibraltar has there been such a concentration of warships there.