Navy's Second "Replenishment Plan": "Withdrawal" from League Explained Tokyo, Feb. 5.
Replying to questions in the Diet recently, the Navy, Minister revealfdthatone reason for the unusually arge naval appropriations appea dug in the budget estimates {or the coming. fiscal year is that they flow. for "the frst part of the wy's second replenishment plan This statement by Admiral Osumi was considered of special. interest Ju that it. provided, for the frst confirmation that the ring in the Japanese Press in November last. were. well founded in substance if not in detail. According to. these reports, the' Navy' Ministry" had decided to expedite the carrying called. second Havas. replenishment programme and to seek the sanction the Diet for the necessary a Dropriations. Enquiries. made the Navy Office at 1 ever, brought forth a d Sccuracy, though the naval spokes-San avoided going so far as to ort that they were wholly" devel of foundation, Beyond admitting that appropria~ tions for the commencement Jong-projected second replenishment Jrogramme were being asked, and that the naval authorities, were contemplating submission ther "plans for "supplementing the strength of the Navy, Adi Osami, in his statement in the Dis eave. no indication of the. total mount eventually required for the Completion of the progranime, nor aid he indicate the number of years, over which it was to be spread.
The actual amount to be appro~ the fiscal year sob under the Maintenance of new warships 15,199,071 Ronstraction of grains "15700000 Improvement of Navy. ren nnd Tang evvsvy cess 1004290 2405139 marines of various sizes, a mine Inger of °5,000 tons, and an. specified number of mine-sweepers land. torpedo boats. These ave all by. way of being replacements, the Paper says, for vessels. that have already. reached, "or are soon reach, the age Iimit, the total cost fof their construction being set Yer 360,000,000. 'The balance of '¥en 100,000,000, it is reported, is to be apent"on the creation got five more naval air squadrons, "a plan which, if-carried out, will eventually' give Japan a total of 36 such nits.
"The, figures quoted from the "Asahi" ave the same ax those reported in. the *vernacular Press three months "ago. and cannot. be regarded as strictly—acewrate. Nevertheless, in. that the Navy Minister's admission in. the Diet, that the, naval estimates "in the 2993.34 Budget provide for the commencement of the second naval replenishment programme, has ce firmed part of last November's Press Yeports. Tt seems not unreasonable "to believe that the! detain contained ud. reasserted again now byt "Asahi")" are somewhat nea? the The Japanese army's programme for expansion of armoured car salts Was announced today by the War Ministry. The strength of the es
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