JAPANESE FLEET
NEW SUPER-SUBMARINES. SECRECY OF MANOEUVRES. TOKIO, Oct. 24.. Unaccountable secrecy surrounds the grand Japanese naval manoeuvres now taking place. The Emperor is -witnessing them. The entire fleet is participating with 200 aeroplanes. One section of the fleet is operating from Kyushu base, endeavouring to capture Yokohama Requests from newspaper correspondents to- witness the review were refused by the Navy Department. Japan has recently added a number of • super-submarines to her fleet, and their presence at the manoeuvres may account for the shroud of secrecy. A foreign naval expert, who watched the surface operations of one of the new submarines described the craft as the biggest of its kind in the world.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 November 1927, Page 8
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113JAPANESE FLEET Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 November 1927, Page 8
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