SPERRY IN JAPAN.
GREAT CORDIALITY.
THE ENTRY INTO YOKOHAMA. NAVAL DISPLAY. (or TEiEOßArn—rnEss association—corTtucnx.) (Rec. October 19, 10.45 p.m.) Toklo, October 19. Tho United States battleship fleet, under command of Rear-Admiral Sperry, has reached Yokohama, tho port of Tokio. The visiting fleet, escorted by Japanese cruisers, entered Yokohama Harbour amid a dischargo of fireworks and of salutes from sixteen Japaneso battleships and shore batteries. Tho Japanese battleships • anchored in columns astern of the American. Extraordinary onthusiasm was shown, tho Stars and Stripes and tho Rising Sim being 6een everywhere. Japanese newspapers declare that Japan owes tho United States undying gratitude for loading hor into tho light of modern civilisation, and for treating her with uniform and profound friendship.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 332, 20 October 1908, Page 7
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118SPERRY IN JAPAN. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 332, 20 October 1908, Page 7
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