NAVAL PROGRAMMES.
The outline of Japan's naval programme, more or less conjeetvirally given by a correspondent of tlie New York "Times," conies at a good time to emphasise the complaint of a Japanese professor, that the military party in
his country is doing- it a grave disservice. The militarists do not form the Government, but they control it. -which amounts to the same thing-. The programme prompts comparison with that o£ the United States., which, as stated officially in the House of Commons a few weeks ago. promises, or threatens, that in 1925 Aiuerica will have: Xew capital ships mounting- 16-inch guns, 10; and of vessels with a speed ot" 33j- knots or more. 6 capital ships. ID light cruisers, and 6G destroyers. The programme provides for no new ships of the first three classes, but for 97 new destroyers. If America wants the greatest navy in the world she will have it soon, so far as British competition, as designed at present, is concerned. It has been suggested that little more will be heard ot" the American programme, laid down iu 1016, once the fight for the Presidency is over. But that will depend largely on the programme of -Japan.
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Timaru Herald, Issue 170307, 1 September 1920, Page 6
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