CHINESE NAVY
REORGANISATION PLANS ASSISTANCE FROM BRITAIN [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Dec. 2. The Admiralty announces that in accordance with the Sino-British Naval Agreement signed in June, 1929, at Nanking, a British Naval Mission is to proceed to China to advise and assist the Ministry of the Nav” of the Nationalist Government in the projected reorganisation and modernisation of the Chinese navy.
Captain Baillie-Grohman has been selected as head of the mission. He will assume the rank of commodore in the Chinese Navy and will proceed to China early in 1931 to arrange preliminaries with Vice-Admiral Chen (ViceMinister of the Navy at Nanking).
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 440, 4 December 1930, Page 7
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103CHINESE NAVY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 440, 4 December 1930, Page 7
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