JAPANESE NAVY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13877, 15 April 1907, Page 5

JAPANESE NAVY.

THE DBKADNOUOHT' ORDERED IN ENGLAND. Press Asscciation-By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, April 12. The Dreadnought ordered in England by Japan is to bo completed by 1309. She will carry 12 12in, 10 B.2in, and 12 4.7 in guns. Her sister ehip is beingbuilt in Japan. A Bonier messams from Tokio drted .January 19, slates:-" A study of'the 1907-3 budget shows that anions tho principal Jtenia of cxno:i<litur<>. which have swollen tlio Budget to' the extent of £11.600 000 in t-xeess of that or 1306-7, thoso required liv tho army and tho navy aro the most conspicuous. Anion? the extraordinary disbursements of the a.rrny. sums of £3,520.000 •wo only instalments of outlays oxtondinsr for 11 years. Again, in Iho navy account, under the head of extraordinary expenditure, wo find that, the mm of"£1,003,000 required for making- warships thoroughly efficient' is also the first instalment of (ho total amount of £7.657,700 lo bo paid out in seven years. Them r another item in the Naval Budget of £2,500,000 for tho buildinir ami lvjmirini; of warships, etc., which is an instalment of Iho total of £17,500,000 extondintr "vor seven years. Even limiting our calculation to Iho amounts above indicated under tho :i."mv and navy by excluding thn items which jilwady carry credit, we obtain .-the totol of £18,706,896. which has lo ho defrayed in tho era of tno army in II years (a portion of it m lour years!. a.nd m tho case of Iho naVy in seven years."