NAVAL EXPANSION
JAPANESE PLANS
"SITUATION MOST DELICATE"
NO BASE IN CHINA *
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) (Received February 10, 9.15 a.m.) TOKIO, February 9. "The situation is most delicate, and I am unable to reveal the naval expansion plans," said the Admiralty spokesman, replying to a report that Japan is building up to equality \ with any Power. j He denied that Japan had forti- ( fied the Caroline Islands and given her sanction to Germany creating a base within the Japanese mandate. Japan did not contemplate constructing a naval base in China, but he refused to say whether this included Hainan.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 34, 10 February 1939, Page 10
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