Tokyo, Jan.
Making bid for possession of the wplue. ribbon of the seven seas," Japanese shipping companies now he. building. 84 vessels with an igaregate tonnage of $21,741. AIL these vessels will be launched "or completed within the current year.
Fifteen new vessels aggregating 114,190 tons will lake the water next year while 1941 will witness the Tounching of five new ships aggreating 72500, tons.
Three of the vessels are under truction by order of the Nippon Yuren Kaisha, largest Japanese ship-ring concert, at the Mitsubushi Dockyard. In Nogasala.
"These three 10,800-ton ships of the N.Y.K. will be launched next June and. will be able to attain a speed of 21 knots. They are the Mitta Maru, "Yawata Maru and Kasuga Maru, They will be placed in the Tokyo, Jan. 3. Lieut.-Gen, Otezo Yamada has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces to Central China, the Army Section of the Imperial General Headquarters announced today. He replaces Gen. Shunroku Hata who has been made a member of the Supreme Military Council, ac~ cording to the communique. Lieut.-Gen, Yamada formerly ceeupied "an important post in the field", the announcement added.
Lieut.-Gen. Yamada, who is 7, assumed an important post in' Manchuria in 1937. was graduated from the Military Academy and appointed 'a Cavalry Second Lieutenant in 1903. At various times he was a staff officer of the Korean Army, Sectional Chief of the Army General Staff, Commander of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, Bureau rector of the Army General Staff and President of the Military Academy—Domel, gues the policy adopted by the Im. perisl Conference on November 20) for readjusting the relations between Japa and China.—Reuter.
European service.
"The Argentina Maru and the Brazil Maru, two new boats of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, also will be Tounched in June and will be placed m the South American service. They lire. 12,000-ton vessels. with a speed of 20: knots.
Another new passenger liner of the NAV. Will" be completed 1041 and commissioned for the Grient-San-Francisco line; It will be a'27,700-ton ship with a speed of 4 kenots—Domel.
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