THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE. LONDON, August 18.
Japan has ordered two first-class cruisers to be built on the Clyde of a larger displacement than the British Admiralty's latest cruisers. Viscount Hayashi, the Japanese Minister in London, informed a correspondent of the Standard that the sending of a Japanese squadron to the naval review was not merely the act of the Japanese Government, but even more the act of the people, who insisted on paying every honour to the King.
Viscount Hayashi added that tho visit of Prince Akihito Kometsu, the Japanese envoy to the Coronation, marked the character of the alliance between Britain and Japan.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 21
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104THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE. LONDON, August 18. Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 21
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