JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1919, Page 5

JAPAN.

NAVAL PROGRAMME. Jy Telegraph —Press Ann.- Copyright. Received Aug. 22, 9.10 pan. Toldo, Aug. 21. %• N»vy Department's new programme includes two ' jthree light-cruisers, fire fiwt-d»M and Bye second-class destroyers, several subWttiliM, and a. number of gunboats suitible for the China station. The battle* fcAWre, of 43,600 tons, will embody the latest British improvements. The prcgramme, to to be completed in 1923, Mien the fleet Will include eight modern Dreadnoughts and six battle cruisers. The Government is talcing inventories fcf German and Austrian property in Japan preparatory to taking possession as part of the' security for Japan's claims, and has already seized the German and Austrian embassies, also a faqiiM pounds' Worth of property at , %Wf»haimv-»An«..» 2. Cable Aran.

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