CHINESE NAVY
TO BE REORGANISED
BRITISH MISSION TO ADVISE
(British Official Wireless.) (Received 3rd December, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 2nd December. , The Admiralty announces that, in accordance with the Sino-British Naval Agreement signed in June, 1929, at Nanking, a British Naval Mission is to proceed to China to advise and assist the Ministry of the Navy of the Nationalist Government in the projected reorganisation and modernisation of the Chinese Navy. Captain Baillie-Grohnian has been selected as head of tho mission. He will assume' the rank of Commodore in the Chinese Navy. and, will proceed to China early in 1931 to arrange the preliminaries with Vice-Admiral Chen, Vice-Minister of. the. Nayy .at Nanking. Captain Harold Tom Baillie-Grohman, D.5.0., 0.8. E., was born in Victoria, British Columbia, on 15th January, 1888. He joined the Koyal Navy in 1903, and served with distinction in the Great "Vftar.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 133, 3 December 1930, Page 11
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