NAVAL POWER DISPLAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 5, 7 January 1929, Page 5

NAVAL POWER DISPLAY.

REVIEW AT YOKOHAMA.

BRITAIN REPRESENTED.

YOUNG EMPEROR SALUTED.

YOKOHAMA, December 4.

The greatest display of sea power ever gathered together in Far Eastern waters passed for inspection to-day before the newly-enthroned Emperor Hirohito in the grand enthronement naval review. Approximately 180 fighting ships of all classes took part, ranging from the great super-dreadnaughts Mutzu and Nagato down to destroyers and gunboats.

The review was an international naval spectacle, for the four other signatories of the Washington naval limitation treaty had envoys present. ViceAdmiral Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, commander of the British Asiatic fleet, brought three of England's newest and finest 10,000-ton cruisers, the Kent, the Suffolk, and the Berwick. Rear-Admiral Stoltz, commanding the French fleet in the Far East, was there on his flagship, the cruiser Jules Michelet. Italy sent the small cruiser Libia, and Holland was represented by the cruiser Java.

The Hurana is one of the four sister ships with a tonnage of 27,500 and a speed of 27 knots. Two of her sisters, the Kongo and the Hiyei, took part in the review. As the flagship steamed along each of the six lines in which the navy was arrayed she was preceded by the Kongo and followed by the Hiyei. Five battleships brought the total of participating capital ships to eight. Eighty-one destroyers, thirty-four submarines and more than forty other vessels were in the review. The f-in<* arm of the navy was represented by about 135 airplanes.

Admiral Hyo Takarabe, Minister of Marine from 1924 to 1927, commanded the combined fleets.