NAVAL HOLIDAY.
BUILDING STOPPED. JAPAN AND AMERICA. SCRAPPING WARSHIPS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Tokio, Feb. 7. Orders have been issued to stop al! work on the four battleships and four battle-cruisers now building. Twentyseven thousand men are affected, but Admiral Okada, chief of the naval construction bureau, says that the stoppage of work is only temporary, as it is planned to advance the 1924 and 1925 programmes for naval auxiliaries, which will commence immediately. Admiral Okada, answering questions in the Diet, stated that in addition to the large vessels nine destroyers, five submarines, eight torpedo boats and two auxiliaries would be scrapped this year, 32 in all. The antiquated battleships would be retained for training the reeerve. The policy of the navy was to act in strict accordance with the decisions of the Washington Conference. Received Feib. 8, 9.10 p.m. Washington, Feb. 7.
President Harding has ordered the suspension of all construction work on Pacific ocean fortifications.
Mr. Weeks (Naval Secretary) also announced that wireless orders have been sent halting a naval transport carrying twenty howitzers for the Phillipines. All work has been suspended on nava] vessels doomed to the scrap heap under the disarmament agreement, though the actual scrapping will be delayed until the Senate ratifies the treaty.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1922, Page 5
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