Tokyo, Apr. 1.
Japan will be compelled to change her naval building plans and construct bigger ships to meet the situation, if escalation by foreign Powers is followed by the actual building of capital ships larger than 35,000 tons, naval circles stated to-day.
It is regrettable, they said, that the United States invoked the escalator clause of the London Naval Treaty on the presumption that Japan is building or planning to build capital ships larger than 35,000 tons," simply because Japan refused the request of Britain, America and France for information on this country's naval programme."—Domei.
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