JAPANESE NAVY
EXPIRATION OF TREATIES ESCALATOR CLAUSE INVOKED LONDON, Jan. 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 portion of the extra 40,000 tons of destroyers which could be kept owing to Britain invoking the escalator clause in regard to destroyers. Tho Japanese Minister of the Navy, Admiral Nagano, in a New Year message, said tho termination of the treaties freed Japan from unjust restriction. He added: "Japan now can replenish tho national defence necessary for her mission to maintain peace in the Orient based on non-aggression and non-menace.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22617, 4 January 1937, Page 10
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