NEW CHINESE NAVY
BRITAIN LENDS A HAND. OFFICERS APPOINTED. United Preen Association—By Else trio Telegrapt Copyright.! British Official Wireless. RUGBY, Dec. 2. 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-Grohman has been selected as head of the mission. He will assume the rank of Commodore in the Chinese Navv and will proceed to China early in '1931 to arrange the lireliminaries with Vice-Admiral Chen, Vice-Minister of the Navy at Nanking. Captain Harold Tom Baillie-Groh-man, D. 5.0.. 0.8. E., was horn in Victoria. British Columbia, on January 15, 1888. He joined the Royal Navy in 1903, and served with distinction in the Great War.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 4 December 1930, Page 9
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146NEW CHINESE NAVY Hawera Star, Volume L, 4 December 1930, Page 9
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