Some officials here believe that the Administration's naval programme envisages the eventual construction of a fleet nearly double the size of the present fleet. They expect the President to ask the new Congress for appropriations for the construction of two or more super-battleships, two aircraft carriers, seven or eight cruise ten or twelve destroyers and many auxiliary ships.
The Army, however, is causing the greatest concern among military circles here. Military leaders contend that the Army is not powerful enough at present even for home defence.
The President is expected to ask Congress for at least $10,000.000 to modernize and mechanize the Army! and strengthen coastal defences The greatest increase in strength, proportionally, will be in the Air Force, however. The President is understood to be planning a force of at least 10,000 modern planes which would give the United States one of the most powerful air fleets in the world despite speeded aircraft construction in other countries.—United Press. gained a foothold in Tungcheng Making up for the time lost due to unfavourable weather, Japanese naval aircraft in a series of spectacular raids deep in Chinese territory on Tuesday, left a trail of wrecked Chinese planes hangars and demolished military establishments.
Divided into four separate flights, the Japanese planes attacked Yuan-chow, in western. Hunan province; Hengyang, central Hunan on the Canton-Hankow railway; Chengtu, capital of Szechuen, and Chungking, present capital of the Nationalist regime.
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