JAPAN'S "VICTORY."
FLAGSHIP OF ADMIRAL TOGO. MOVEMENT TO SAVE SHIP. (Beceived 10.20 p.m.) Bouter. TOKIO. July 17. A popular movement has started to save the battleship Makasa from the scrap heap, to which she is doomed under the Washington Naval Treaty, after she has been disarmed. -The movement is grounded on sentiment, the Makasa having been Admiral Togo's battleship in the battle of <jhe Sea of Japan in v the Russo-Japanese war. The vessel is regarded by the Japanese as comparable to Nelson's Victory.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18146, 19 July 1922, Page 9
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