Washington, Mar. 5.
The statement made yesterday by a Japanese naval official in Tokyo to a Havas correspondent that Japan was not building super-battleships but was constructing warships of a special and secret type, is seen in naval circles here as a confirmation of the reports that Japan is building 14.000 ton pocket cruisers modelled on the lines of the German cruisers of this type, such as the Deutschland.
These circles consider the Japanese declaration as a Japanese attempt to intimidate the United States, who contemplate the enforcement of the Escalator Clause of the 1936 London Naval Treaty. This clause provides for the construction of warships displacing over 35,000 tons.
The Japanese secret construction is included in a category which is not authorized by the London Naval Treaty, and the United States will claim the right to build battleships and cruisers more powerful than the ones they own at present.
The State Department is studying at present the instructions which will be sent to the U.S. Embassy in London on the matter.—Havas.
Linz, Mar. 5.
This Austrian Nazi stronghold was under threat of being taken by assault by thousands of Nazi peasants and workers converging on the city to-day for the observance of "German Day," a Nazi demonstration of solidarity in defiance of Government orders prohibiting political demonstrations except by the Fatherland Front.
Herr Hans Eigruber, Nazi leader here, told the press that the peasants and workers would, besiege the city if Federal troops made any attempt to-block the highways leading ta the city or prevent "orderly development" of the Nazi movement here—
United Press.
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