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JAPAN’S GREAT BUILDING PROGRAMME
BRITAIN BEING RELEGATED TO THIRD PLACE
By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright.
(Rec. March 20, 11.45 p.m.) London, March 20.
The "Sunday Express’s” Tokio correspondent draws attention to the fact that Japan is spending one-third of her national income on her navy, compared with America’s 10 per cent, and Britain’s 6 per cent. The Japanese naval programme provides that sixteen capital ships will bo completed by 1928, compared with America’s eighteen, but there will be larger numbers of light cruisers, destroyers, and submarines than America is providing. Britain is being relegate:; to third place as a naval Power. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 150, 21 March 1921, Page 5
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104NAVAL POWER Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 150, 21 March 1921, Page 5
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