The following table shows the progress of the Japanese Navy since it. organisation:
al Tonnage. pedo-borts, No. of 4, No. of tor-12.916 27,523 66,716 Over 20 83,166 " 20 1904 (inn.) 80 275,743 70 1905(Juue) 74 274,204 80 Sinew ths opening of hostilities Fotruary last, Japan tis lost twelve vessel ut captured Six, #0 that the avg ega'e di T500 tons as co.npa ed with that previous lacement is decreed by only about
tothe outbreak of tre war. though the navy is still short six vessels I cently refloated Bayan and Pere: added to the Japanese fleet, its roral dis placement will be increased by over sven-teen thousand tons.
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Lord Kitchener and the Indian Army.
Our Commander-in-Chief wishes it to be knows that there is not, nor has been, disagreement as to the military policy general which he has recommended to to the governier noticed, Hions, as seen in the fact that the executive control of the supply and transport has recently been taken from the Military Department
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