THE JAPANESE NAVY.
Notwithstanding the scarcity' of steel, Japan is to expend nearly £ls- - on her navy during 1918, of which over £5,400,000 is ordinary expenditure, and some £9,500,000 extraordinary outlay. This is regarded tis quite an abnormal proportion. of the £t 2,200,000 which forms the national Budget for 1918, especially as some £9,500,000 more is to be devoted to the array. The entire appropriation for which the navy is asking at the present session of the Imperial Diet, however, is £30,054,800, to be spread over a period of six years, producing two new battle-cruisers, three cruisers of medium type, 11 large destroyers, - 10 medium destroyers, 48 submarines, and six special service boats. The amount to be spent purely on naval expansion is thus about £3,800,000 more than last year. The ultimate aim of the Japanese Naval Department is avowedly towards the 8-8 system; that is, eight battle-; ships and eight battle-cruisers to a squadron, and to have in time at least three such squadrons. Up to the present, however, the national fiinance has permitted a realisation of no more than an 8-4 system; but the programme put forward for this year alters the plan to eight battleships and six battle-cruisers by 1923. The request for an 8-8 system is to be postponed until 1921. Though it is uncertain what portiorl of the new programme is to be undertaken first, there is every reason to believe that the Government will at once begin with the construction of the two new battle-cruisers, as negotiations are now going on with certain dockyards in this connection. Of the total appropriation of £30,054,800 asked for, the allotments for the six years for naval construction are as follows: —1918, £2,544,851; 1919, £4,771,766; 1920, £5,412,381; 1921, £0,819,635; 1922, £7,122,673; 1923, £3,383,535.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1826, 14 May 1918, Page 4
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295THE JAPANESE NAVY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1826, 14 May 1918, Page 4
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