Shanghai, May 28.
ESPITE the drizzling rain, a large body of foreign and Japanese army, navy, diplomatic and other officials stood under leaky marquees erected along: Kwangchun Road, Kiangwan, for the greater part of yesterday morning, while hundreds of Japanese -marines and blue-jackets, armed with all the equipment of war, marched past in review order before Vice-Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, commander-in-Chief of the Japanese China Sea Fleet: 'The occasion was the celebration of Japan's Navy Day, marking' the 38rd anniversary of the battle of Tsushima, when the Japanese Navy defeated the Russian Fleet, 'XKwangehun Road was chosen the ground for the parade because It Was on and around this road that one of the most violent battles in the local hostilities. took place, from the early morning of August i4 to August 16, when the small Japanese force held Out against' what' appeared to be overwhelming odds until the arrival of reinforcements. A huge map, rected yesterday before the review: ing stand, showed the various posi tions of the Chinese and Japanese forces during those fest few days.
A. very large section of the local Japanese population was expected to fattend the parade yesterday, but the heavy rain during the morning Kept many away, and only a comparative handful turned out.
Heading the Japanese guests of Vice-Admiral Oikawa and his oflcers at the review was General Shunroks Hata, Commander-in-cChiet of the Japanese Expeditionary cree in Central China, Other Japanese of dal guests were Mr, Masayuki Tani, Japanese Minister-alarge; Mr. Hidaka, Japanese Consul-General; and Major-General KK. Harada, Chief. of the Special Service Section of the Japanese Expeditionary Force.
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