JAPAN
NEW NAVAL PROGRAMME
BY CABLE—PIiESS ASSOCIATION—COPTEIGHT TOKIO, Aug. 21. The Navy Department's new programme includes two battle-cruisers, three light cruisers, five first-class and five second-class destroyers, several submarines, and a number of gunboats suitable for the China station. The battle-cruisers, of 43,000 tons, will embody the latest British improvements. The programme is to be completed in 1923, when the fleet will include eight modern Dreadnoughts and six battlecruisers. The Government is taking inventories of German and Austrian property in Japan preparatory to taking possession as part of the security for Japan's claims, and has already seized the German and Austrian embassies, also a million pounds' worth of property at Yokohama.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 23 August 1919, Page 5
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111JAPAN Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 23 August 1919, Page 5
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