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me opening- paragrapn reads:“I have returned. By the gralt;... . . -■ X . . _ .TyphoonsDeritish Fleetr■YOKOHAMA, Japan . (SS) —Typhoons Wednesday delayed one of the largest concentrations of British Commonwealth naval might to converge 011 Japan since World War II.Arriving at Yokohama Wednesday was the commander-in-chief Far Fast Station, Admiral Sir Gerald Gladstone, K.C.B., flying bis flag aboard the 2,480-ton dispatch vessel HMS Alert.The rest of his fleet under the command of Rear Adm. V. C. Begg, C.B., D.S.O., D.S.C., flag officer, second-in-command, Far East Station, was strung out-in thfe East China Sea, riding, out typhoon Dinah. Typhoon Charlotte, which killed 46 on Okinawa, delayed them earlier en route.* * *THE FLEET included the aircraft carrier Centaur, the destroyers Cavalier, Caprice, Lagos, Tobruk and Anzac and the Royal Fleet auxiliaries Tidesurge, Reliant and Fort Charlotte.Adm. Gladstone's flagship arrived at Yokohama at 8:45 a.m. showing signs of the battering she received on her way up through Yokohama from Eta Jima, southern Japan.The captain of HMS Alert, Cdr, W. C. Hoyle, and the admiral were welcomed by the Misses * Yokohama, Tomoko HI rata, 20, and Yoshiko Ohno, 23, who presented them with flowers.* * *LATER ADM. GLADSTONE received representatives of the local and prefectural governments, the British consul in Yokohama and U.S. Rear Adm. Frederic H. Withington, chief, Naval Forces, Japan, and Vice Adm. Yoshimori Tera^, commander of Yokosuka Region District Hq., Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.A British naval spokesman said the rest of the fleet was expected to arrive in Japan “within the next 24 hours.0All the vessels will be open to the public from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
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Pacific Stars and Stripes
Tokyo, Tôkyô, JP
Wed, Oct 21, 1959
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