At his interview with foreign news correspondents yesterday Rear-Admiral Kanazawa, spokesman of the Navy Ministry, told your correspondent that the Japanese navy does not Jock, upon the American naval construction programme san aggressive policy directed specially against Japan.
However, he added, "naturally we are fully aware of the great mobility of modern naval forces, and from this point of view we regard the United States' big navy plans with grave concern."
Admiral Kanazawa said he does not think the American naval programme, possibly in conjunction with similar construction in Great Britain, is specifically directed against a combination of the Japanese, German and Italian navies, as has been reported, He pointed out that in existing world conditions public opinion everywhere is ever-sensitive, and that responsible statesmen should no: be sw much by it.
Admiral Kanazavwa's Captain Ogawa, added his opinion that the American navy is already big enough to defend both North and South America from any existing possibility of attack, and that the need of defending the two continent is given only as a pretext for building a larger na
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