Before concluding this report, I have to inform this House of ye veral other important matters.
Gentlemen, in the speech from the Throne His Majesty emphasized the fact that the Alliance with Great Britain, and the entente with Russia and France have further proved their solidarity by the present er At an early stage war, Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a telegram to me stated that the officers and men of Great Britain rejoiced in fighting the common enemy on the side of the loyal offi-eers and men of the Imperial Japanese Navy and to this I re-Plied to the effect that the officers of the Japanese Navy felt equally glad, and that by the efforts of the navies of the two countries, I expected a speedy achievement of victory. And it is with a sense of profound gratitude that I am able to report that ever since that, between the navies of the two countries, ce-operative action with unreserved confidence had been carried on everywhere most smoothly. The fact that this unreserved cooperation exists substantiates, I believe, what His Majesty the Emperor has said, that the alliance with Great Brit has further proved its solidarity.
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