JAPAN'S NAVY.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17126, 22 April 1921, Page 7

JAPAN'S NAVY.

strenuous mmm, ATTfiftJlXB OF AMBRiOA. (By A^eiatioh-^dnyriglit.) (Australian arid $./ i. Cable NEW YORK, April 20. The Washington correspondent of the "New York Herald'.' states that high Officers in the "United Stated Tfavy have privately informed him that trustworthy Information by United States secret agents reveals ihafc JfrUan is building against time in an effort to iiioie than double her navy* He 18 itlSb itifotmed that'.the neW Administr<itiibtt in the. United States .is. WatcliiHa Japan's strenuous navy building With grave Cbttcern. j It is understood? that Japan is constructing many email craft which can Tbo converted into siibmarinos and' fe Stroyers, and tlitit she will strengthen tier navy by 50 per cent, by 1924 ttrtd by 100 pei-cent, by i 92 7; .The correspondent snyS it can. be authoritatively sthtedthrtt it is .the settled ptirpose 6f President Harding not only to complete the 1618 American. naVal programme! but to maintain the nnvv in the state of efnclflfinyi Evett partial disarmament is n lorf« way oft. The United States NnV?, Under Presiaerit. Harding's, guidance, will te the first in the World.