A SEVERE STORM.
BATTLESHIP MAKES GOOD
5X CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION-COPYEIUHT (Reuter Service.) Received March 27, 9.15 a.m.
TOKIO, March 26. A severe storm swept southern Japan and caught the battleship Settsu ,in an inland sea, when the "Empress was aboard returning to Kobe from a tour of the Imperial shrines, where she had gone to pray for the recovery of the Emperor. The battleship successfully laboured through the storm, but the destroyer Warabi was forced ashore on Shikoku Island. The Settsu was the first battleship wholly Japanese built.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 March 1922, Page 5
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87A SEVERE STORM. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 March 1922, Page 5
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