VALUABLE JAPANESE AID

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 26 May 1917, Page 5

VALUABLE JAPANESE AID

LONDON, May 25. In the House of Commons, Lord .Robert Cecil said that Japan had recently sent a considerable number of light craft to the Mediterranean . and -had carried out in 1916 extensive and important cruises in the North Pacific. She was still patrolling the Straits Settlements, and guarding the Indian Ocean east of Colombo, and had sent several new detachments and powerful cruisers to assist in protecting the Indian and South Pacific Oceans. These activities were of additional value as indicating the assistance we might expect in the future.