"Japan has persistently denied the authenticity of the notorious Tanaka memorial, but nothing can hide the fact that Japan, by a series of rapid movements, is seekiry to put the plan into effect.
"The subjugation of China by Japan, if it can be consummated, would be the first step towards world conquest, for nothing short of world supremacy will satisfy the in-satis ble appetite of the Japanese Tokyo, Feb. 20.
Exposed to attack from Soviet and British naval bases in the Pacific, and depending upon imports for her supplies of raw materials, Japan should have a navy greater than that of the United States, This contention was voiced to-day by naval circles here, in response to the widely reported claim of "Big Navy" advocates in the United States that the latter country must set a "two-navy standard as the goal of her shipbuilding programme.
The American claim that equally powerful fleets were needed to protect the United States' Pacific and Atlantic coasts were countered by naval observers here with an assertion that no enemy fleet could approach America sooner than she could transfer her navy from one ocean to another to meet the attack.
"America's best defences," one of the observers told Domei, "are the oceans which wash, her shores. Moreover, there is no Navy either in Europe or in the Orient, which would for any reason wish to attack the United States."
Geographically speaking, the observer added, no country is as safe from foreign attack as the United States.
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