JAPAN’S NAVY.
t --S.S EMPEROR REVIEWS COUNTRY’S STRONGEST FLEET. -— ri BIG INCREASE IN AEROPLANES. MANY MODERN CRUISERS. (Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m.) TOKIO, August 26. The Emperor reviewed at manoeuvres the strongest fleet that has ever saluted a Japanese ruler of a tonnage of 847,766, compared with 703,295 in 1930. The aeroplanes totalled 180, as compared with 72, but the fleet can carry more. A striking feature was the increased strength of first-class cruisers, longer in range and stronger in striking power, these replacing the predominantly light cruiser fleet of 1927.—(“The Times” cable.) PACIFISM UNPOPTTT.AR VIOLENT DISTURBANCE IN TOKIO . TOKIO, August 25. Reactionaries violently disrupted » meetrng of Pacifist Society last T h ?y a ssaulted Wlnd . ows > and distributld handbills denouncing naval restrictions and movementß were arrested. Ti>e nn S lead « a
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Wairarapa Age, 28 August 1933, Page 5
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