JAPAN'S NAVY
PLANS KEPT SECRET EQUALITY WITH OTHER POWERS DELTBCRATE SITUATION •United Press Assn.—El«c. TeL Copyright) TOKIO, Feb. 9 “The situation is most delicate. I am unable to reveal the naval expansion plans,” said the Admiralty spokesman, replying to a report that .Japan would build up to equality with any Power. He denied that Japan had fortified the Caroline Islands or sanctioned Germany creating a base within the Japanese mandate. Japan did not contemplate a naval base in China, but the spokesman refused fo say whether this included Hainan Island, which the Japanese have now invaded.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 8
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96JAPAN'S NAVY Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 8
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