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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 260, 3 August 1928, Page 10

Although the Japanese have the reputation of being a very earnest race, the discovery has been made by visitors to the cruising warships that the alert men from the Orient have a sharp sense of humour and a readiness at repartee (remarks the Auckland “Star”). How loiw will it be before you are in there' asked a visitor of a young midshipman who was showing him the wardroom of the flagship Idzumo. “Perhaps in five vears,” replied flic aspirant for official rank. “And perhaps after that you will be an admiral?” commented the visitor on a note of interrogation. “Yes.” came fhe readv answer, “and when I visit this eoutilrv next time yon will be Prime Minister, cli?” The midshipman won.