JAPANESE SQUADRON.
THE COMING VISIT. COMMANDER'S BRITISH EXPERIENCE. Vice-Admiral S. Kobayashi, who is in command of the Japanese Training Squadron to visit Australia and New Zealand in July, came to Australia in 1901 and 1906 on a Japanese training ship. During the war, in 1917, he came out as the captain of the Japanese cruiser Hirado, and patrolled the eastern coast of Australia and the New Zealand waters. Later he was naval attache to the Japanese Embassy in London, and was chief naval expert of the Japanese delegation to the limitation of armaments conference at Geneva last year.
When Admiral Kobayashi was' stationed in England, in 1912. he was attached for some time to His Majesty's ship Collingwood, of which his Excellency tlie present Governor of New South Wales, Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair, was captain. After the war he was the representative of the Japanese "Navy in the Naval Allied Council for +he Disposal of Enemy Vessels, of which Ms Excellency Sir Dudley de Chair was '■liairman.
Captain M. Hirota, commanding the Tdzumo, was for some time during +he war stationed at Singapore as laiasor officer between the British and Japanese navies.
Captain Idemitsu, who is commanding the Yakumo. was stationed for some vears in England.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 11
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JAPANESE SQUADRON.
Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 11
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