Tokyo, Apr. 14.
UESTIONED regarding Japan's 's naval construction as reported in press dispatches from Washington, Rear-Admiral Kiyoshi Noda, spokesman for the Navy Office, admitted today that "Japan is building some ships," but he refused to disclose their specific tions.
Referring to the Washington message that Japan was reported to be planning construction of super-dreadnoughts and a super-cruiser fleet, Rear-Admiral Noda said the rumour already had been dismissed' with laughter.
He added that some foreign cor respondents possibly have cabled their offices that the Japanese Navy may be building such big ships, the spokesman for the Navy Oifice "neither definitely denied nor confirmed the rumour."
'When one correspondent declared that IN is "common knowledge that the Japanese Navy is building two battleships as replacements under the third naval "replenishment pro= gramme," Rear-Admiral Noda replied that he' was not ina position to divulge Japan's naval plans,
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