British naval commission reorganizing Chilean navy according to the Dutch newspaper Het Vaderland: staat- en letterkundig nieuwsblad evening edition dated 18 September 1925

Berlin, 18 September. According to tidings from Santiago asked the Chilean president the British cabinet for a naval commission to reorganise the Chilean navy. The morning edition of this newspaper dated 23 March 1933 reported that the last member of this commission namely captain Victor Dorman-Smith returned to England. The commission came to Chile in 1928 (?) as request by president Alessandri to modernize the Chilean navy in which she complete succeeded. There was a complete reorganisation executed and the navy was modernized with the headquarters transferred from Valparaiso to Santiago. The Chilean government expended 10.000.000 pound sterling in England buying new ships and other equipment. Another Dutch newspaper the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant evening edition reported on 16 March 1926 that 5 British navy officers arrived at Valparaiso to act as instructors of the Chilean navy.