JAPANESE WARSHIPS ARRIVE ON TUESDAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 415, 25 July 1928, Page 1

JAPANESE WARSHIPS ARRIVE ON TUESDAY

PRINCE ON BOARD PROGRAMME OF VISIT Early on the morning of July 31 ni« Imperial Japanese Majesty’s •nips Idzumo and Yakumo will steam up the Waitemata on their second visit to Auckland. . two cruisers arrived at Welllugton to-day and will sail for Auckland on Saturday. . «üb-lieutenant in the Idzumo ril i co Takamatsu, a younger broTK° f the Ja P aness © Emperor. slli P s a ~9 under the command " Admira * Seizo Kobayashi. .Both of the vessels visited New aland in 1924, when they were under r s c £r and of the late vice - Admirai J. dzum °. however, has another \Tn^5 tlon with the Dominion, for in dnfv # and une » 1917, she did convoy tr»L A Australia and New Zealand transports taking troops to Europe. J.ne idzumo was launched in 1899. saw service in the Russo-Japanese War' o'w n the out hreak of the Great n na J 8 was dispatched to the West Purnn«o° f } he United States for the Sha io* of Protecting trade routes. AdLirn? 6 xr b^Came hagship of RearODeraiSv Monayama, commanding fleet ?fcan ". S . in N ? rth and South ArneH\f <5 paters, in conjunction with Newcastl e and H.M.A.S. AusRussn J akumo also served In the Joined" War - and further 1905 =? the Saghalien expedition in and' >7 6 participated in the blockade AtJust Slm rdl ? ent of Tsingtao in ally ept .™ ber ’ 1914 - and was finJndian ri Wlt!l otber vessels into the Both v£ m search of the Emden. ing nurno ls are now used for train--71 officers oT and their corn P leme nt is fleers i lit 6S non ~commissioned of“idshipmen ° ffl< : ers and “en. 174 tenants -,? 1 Junlor surgeon-lieu-A ten'tst" d three school teachers. Went fot .. e pr °S. ra mme of entertalnranged a, J' L'" visitors has been aruntil F-ia 4 Duality will not be reached for which X. m ° rnin £- An At Home 2.400 invitat' 6 Clty Council is Issuing To Wn win ° ns ’ wIU be held at tlie ’^dron-j’arrßmh 6 6Vening ° £ the ®and?ng T?i iE t matsu not be dette Imrferi t J> ea j, t;rnent as a member of aness 1 f amUy except from Jap«al Oc7a s fo * ’ He wll >. save on speaa ether be on the same footing m or officers on the ships.