NAVAL POLICY.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 March 1921, Page 5

NAVAL POLICY.

JAPAN’S PROGRAMME. ONE-THIRD INCOME ON NAVY. BRITAIN AS THIRD POWER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 20, 1i1,45 p.m. London, March 20. The Sunday Express’ Tokio correspondent d;raws attention to the fact that Japan Is spending one-third of her national income on her navy, compared with America’s teu per cent and Britain’s six per cent. The Japanese naval programme provides for sixteen capital ships to be completed by 1928, compared with America’s eighteen, but she will have larger numbers of light cruisers, destroyers and submarines than America. Britain will be relegated to third place as a naval power.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. JAPAN’S FOREIGN POLICY. INSISTENCE OF YAP RIGHTS. RELATIONS WITH AMERICA. Received March 20, 11.6 p.m. • Tokio, March 19. The House of Representatives overwhelmingly defeated a motion declaring tvant of confidence in the Hara Ministry based on charges regarding alleged South Manchurian railway scandals. Viscount Uchida (Minister of Foreign Affairs), addressing the Diet Budget Committee, said Japan will stand firm on the Yap mandate. Representative Uohara charged Mr. John F. Stevens, who is at the head of the American railway mission to Siberia, with carrying on an anti-Japanese movement, as a result of his views clashing with those of the Japanese army in Siberia. Viscount Uchida replied that he knew nothing of the allegations against Mr. Stevens, adding that the Government was adopting every possible means to prevent the passage of laws similar to California’s anti-alien measure. Viscount Uehidia declared that the British-Russian trade agreement was a temporary affair. Hitherto Japan had kept in touch with the Soviet, but it might be necessary to map out a policy confirming that of other countries. He !>elieved the Moscow and Chita Governments should be treated with separately.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.