Gun and Aeroplane Practice on Vessels Condemned under the Washington Treaty Tokio, Aug. 8.
In execution of the Washington Treaty regarding naval armaments, the battleships Satsuma, Aki, Kaga and Tosa will be excluded from the Imperial Navy. An announcement is made that they. will be used for tactical and strategical experiments.
According to naval authorities, the Satsuma and the Aki will be made targets for gunfire from the battleships Nagato and Mutsu_at the outrace of Tokio Harbour.. The Kaga and the Tosa will be made the object of aeroplane attacks, the former at Tokio Bay and the latter at Kure.—Reuter.
Arrangements for Fulfilling Treaty Tokio, Aug. 16.
The Naval Department has to-day made the following announcement:
The Japanese Navy, with a view to speedily effecting, on the coming into force of the Treaty for the limitation of naval armaments, the scrapping of war vessels to be disposed of under the Treaty, has decided on the following preparatory operations (1) The Aki and the Satsuma to be transferred to Yokosuka where they are to be scrapped.
(2) The Katori and the Kashima to be sent to Kure, where their turrets are to be landed, and then to come to Maizuru where they are to be scrapped.
(3) The Kurama to have her tur-rote landed at Kure and then to be sent to Sasebo, where she is to be scrapped.
(4) The Ikcma to have her turrets landed at Yokosuka and then to be sent to Sasebo where she is to be scrapped.
(5) Part of the operations preparatory to the scrapping of the war vessels under the Naval Treaty, other than those mentioned in the foregoing, to be carried out at the naval stations to which they respectively belong.
(6) The war vessels the preparatory operations on which, as above mentioned, have been completed are to wait for further orders until the coming into force of the Naval Treaty.—Eastern News Agency.
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