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Show JAPANESE SQUADRON TO ARRIVE THURSDAY MORNING Honolulu. March 29 The local wireless wire-less station announced today that it hod established communication with the Japanese cruisers Aso and Soyo, of. the training squadron dispatched by the Japanese on a practice cruise to the Pacific coasL The squadron is due to arrive here Thursday morning. morn-ing. The Aso was formerly the Russian armored cruiser Bayan, sunk by tho Japanese during the recent war, and. the Soyo, the Russian protected cruiser crui-ser Variag, which suffered a similar fate. The ships were refloated by tho Japanese at the close of the war and after being overhauled and refitted, were added to the Japanese navy. |