JAPANESE WARSHIPS

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 155, 3 July 1916, Page 7

JAPANESE WARSHIPS

A VISIT TO WELLINGTON

ACCORDED A CIVIC RECEPTION

[pßiun Association;} WELLINGTON, July 1^ :\ A civic reception was acc«rded^to i Rear-Admiral Matsnmura and tho ; officers of th« Japanese ■■' training squadron. . Speeches af welcome and \ appreciation of Japan's part m the . present "war were■, made., by .the Mayor, Mr Massey,. and ; Sir ( Joseph | Ward. - . ~ , The Admiral, in replying, ; saad .lw had the- honor to annoimco that it , was always his des-iro,. not only. I fulfil M»A«Mi«ations undfer the Anglo-; Japanese Alliance; but also,to join hands' with tlie British -nation in up-, holding the causes of 'humanity andcivilisation';,of, the worki.; ■ r ,-..