Tokyo, Dec. 4.
Stirting scenes marked the Grand Naval Review held off Yokohama this morning in celebration of the Enthronement Ceremonies recently concluded in Kyoto. The weather was fine, More than 180 vessels, of all types and sizes, from the great 33,800-ton super-dreadnoughts Mutsu and Nagato, down to small but aggressive-looking second-class, destroyers and submarines of under 1,000-tons, were drawn up in lines, with their crews manning ship. Retween these the fine 27,500-ton uittleship Haruna, newly" recon-clitioned and provided with blisters, with the Emperor and his staff aboard, steamed slowly and majestically, accompanied by two sister-ships, Kongo, and Hiyei, and by the 27-year-old Iwate, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War.
With this grand concourse of Japanese warships were three of the newest units of the British Fleet, the 10,000-ton cruisers Kent, Berwick, and Suffolk, with the flag ital Sir Reginald Tyr Whitt fluttering from the first of America, France, Italy The inspection completed, the Emperor and his staff took their position at the saluting base. Then followed the march past, all the infantry of the 17 divisions presented passing first, after which came the engineers, contingents. of tanks, armoured-cars, mechanizes artillery. and other special units Finally. horse-drawn artillery, fol-Iewwed by cavalry, swept by at a swift trot, while over-head squadron after squadron of air craft parsed, fy formation.
The Romance of the Colours In the Japanese Army, pride of place is always given to the infantry, and nothing in the was more impressive than the colour parties which preceded each infantry regiment. To anyone seeing these small groups for the first time, the impression left by them may be disappointing, for the colours in most instances are parel recognizable as such. In the of eases they consist of nothing more than " purple cord fluttering from 'a pole; for, unlike the colours carried by the troop of most western armies, they ar not replaced from time to time by new emblems, These fluttering cords are, in fact, all that remain fof the tattered colours carried into faction in past wars, and the more they have been shot away the more highly are they prized by their Following each colour party came the regimental buyers, then the battalion commanders and stof, leading the companies under thei command, while at the rear of each baitation came the heavy machine guns strapped to pack ponies, Battalion after battalion, Tegiment after regiment, bridal after brigade of infantry passed the saluting base in this whilst after them came the en gineers.
Then followed the Tanks, armour-ars and artillery—mountain though the and French vessels. were the est. of the © foreign war ships present, it, was. the three British cruisers of the County Class called forth the greatest ad-ration and their presence brought back to mind the Grand Naval of 1905 in celebration of tory over Russia when of Japan, had the proud distinction of being the only foreign Power represented by units of her Fleet,
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