JAPAN’S NAVY.
BIG SHIPS BEING BUILT. Tiie message announcing that the ,i-cl of Japan's largest: battleship has ”• -a laid dow n at Nagasaki shows that ' la’ progi a mme accepted by file Japan•S, Diet ia .laiii’, !!H>. providing for the naiidiiig of eight battleships and six largo cruisers bv 192.1, is being steadily proceeded with. By many authorities will be regarded as further evidence that Japan is replying vigorously to the big building programme of the United States. Four large battleships of- ill.Oen tons displacement, armed with twelve 1-tin guns, and four battlecruisers of 27.500 tons, armed with eight .1 tin guns, were completed by Japan between BUM and .1919. Tlic Kaga. which is mentioned in cables, is one of four battleships under construction in Japanese dockyards, tho others being Matsu. Nagato. and Tosa. The Mutsu and Nagato were to have been launched last year. They arc smaller ships than 11.M.5. Hood, but they arc to carry ten lOin guns as their main armament, as compared with eight loin guns in the British monter. No battleships arc. under construction in British yards, and none is projected at the pre-
sent time. That Japan and the United States are continuing to build large ships may be regarded as proof that the day of the capital ship is not yet past. *
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 14 April 1920, Page 4
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