Naval circles comment particularly on the fact that French submarines will head for the West Indies, recalling the crossing of the German submarine Deutschland which reached Baltimore Curing the World War.
These quarters consider the presence of submarines will modify the Atlantic problem. They assert that German submarines were sent to the Atlantic at the height of the crisis last September. The experience proved the insufficiency of their displacement, and for this reason the Reich invoked the right provided for in the naval treaty with Great Britain, to increase the construction of submarines of greater ment, These circles stress that the Atlantic is the meeting point of the three routes to India, these being by way of Suez, Panama, and the Cape of Good Hope.
They attach considerable importance to the American naval manœuvres which will take place in the neighbourhood of the Panama Canal while the British and French manoeuvres will cover the Suez and Cape of Good Hope routes.—Havas.
Domestic policy requir pear to be included in a large quantity" in the renewed agitation for a bigger American fleet, Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, Minister of the Navy, said in a view here last night, The naval leader is now on his w the Imperial Grand to Shrine at Ise and to the various Imperial graves to report his acceptance of the Navy portfolio in the new Cabinet, "I do not believe that the Ameri-con people, who are devoted to the idea of peace, would take any action that might make them the initiators of an armaments race which would irritate other nations," Admiral Yonai said.
The agitation for a bigger American Navy, he declared, was a recurrent phenomenon each time Congress met. "It is true, however, that such reports cannot be wholly ignored by those in charge of our national defense," he remarked.
Japan's policy for the creation of a defensive navy, best suited to her needs in most economical manner, enunciated at the time of the abrogation of the Washington and London pects remained unchanged, Admiral Yonai declared. "Circumstances, however, may compel us to revise our replenishment programme in keeping with our basic naval policy" he said—Domei.
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