The Archive · 1938

In Harbour

Italian cruiser Raymondo Montecuccoli and gunboat Lepanto arrived yesterday shortly before noon and moored to the naval buoys. The cruiser returns from a month's cruise in Japanese waters. The new arrivals bring the total of foreign warships in port to twenty units. Of this number one cruiser and one gunboat are British, one cruiser and two gunboats, American, one cruiser and one gunboat, French; one cruiser and two gunboats, Italian; two cruisers, one gunboat and seven transports, Japanese.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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