NAVAL ARMAMENTS
REDUCTION SUPPORTED NEW JAPANESE MOVE TOKIO, Sept. 10. Tim foreign spokesman • stated tiial Japan wants a new naval treaty replacing the present unsatisfactory pacts, and reducing armaments and the burdens on the people. Continuing, lie said : “Our idea is not to start competition by increasing armaments, but to have navies insufficient for offence but, sufficient for defence, wherefore, if other Powers agree, we are ready to scrap our powerful attacking weapons. We earnestly hope that others are willing to work for such an agreement,” Meanwhile the Navy Office and the Foreign Office are doing tlieir utmost to curb the publication of excitable rumors and encourage calmness. The statement is interpreted to mean that Japan will support the British dosire to reduce, battleships.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18499, 11 September 1934, Page 7
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