UNITED STATES AND JAPAN.
WAR NOT PROBABLE
v I-J3iiLlN, 'Fefe, 28. Captain Persins, one of the most ji'apabls of the retired naval officers, writing m the Berlin Tageblatt, says that he fails to see any probability of war beiwieeti Japan and the United States before th,e opening of the Panama, Canal or fit any future daJte. Captain Persius asserts that the Japanese navy is weaker r.o-.v than it Mas at the beginning of the Russo-Japanese war. Most of their modern battleships, he says, are now obf-o---let-.y and an attempt to construct battleships m Japan has proved a failure. Comparing the two navies, the writer tfiijirjs tjiat the Japanese have 13 battleshjps, "tvjth a total tonnage of 184,800, opposing America's 3"l battleships with a tonnage of 4§8,2(i)0, The father includes six Dreadnoughts, and six more Ameri.caij. Dreadnoughts are being bu'ljt..
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19120307.2.24
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12705, 7 March 1912, Page 3
Word Count
139UNITED STATES AND JAPAN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12705, 7 March 1912, Page 3
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in