NAVAL FREEDOM
JAPAN TO ACT ! EXPIRY OF TREATIES ESCALATOR CLAUSE INVOKED (Cnltfrt Press Association—B.v Electric Telegraph— Copyricht.) fßeceived January 2, 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, January 1. With the expiry of the Washington and London Naval Treaties, Japan has formally invoked the escalator clause, enabling her to retain 15,000 tons of over-age submarines. This is regarded as a reply to the American objection to the suggested transference to the submarine category of a portion of the extra 40,000 tons of destroyers which could be kept owing to Britain invoking the destroyer escalator clause. It is reported from Tokio that the Minister of the Navy, Admiral Nagano, in a New Year message, declared that the termination of the Washington and London Naval Treaties frees Japan from an unjusi restriction, and adds that Japan can now replenish her national defences, which are necessary. Japan's mission to maintain peace in the Orient is based on nonaggression and non-menace.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 12
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153NAVAL FREEDOM Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 12
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