JAPAN AND AMERICA
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. JAPAN GETS BUSY. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 20. The New York “Herald’s” Washington correspondent states that high officers in the United States Navy privately informed the correspondent that trustworthy information, obtained by United States Secret Agents, reveals that Japan is building against time in an effort to more than double her navy; also that the new American Administration is watching Japan’s ' strenuous navy building with grave concern. It is understood that Japan is constructing many small craft, which could be converted into submarines and destroyers; and she will strengthen her navy by f’fi'v per cent bv 1924, and a hundred per cent by 1927. The correspondent adds it can authoritivelv be stated that it is the settled purpose of President Harding, not only to complete the 1916 American naval progpramme, hut to maintain tlie Navy in the highest state of efficiency. Even part of disarmament is a long way off. The Navy under President Hard- ; ing’s guidance, will be the first in the world. ]
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1921, Page 2
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