Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these days, ocean tourists seldom venture upon ships of less than 10,000 tons.* Last week a tiny destroyer of 800 tons was launched at Kiel. She represents the concentrated efforts of German naval architects to overcome the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. Within her dagger-thin hull will pulse engines of 23,000 horsepower. Slicing the waves at 36.8 miles an hour (32 knots), equipped with double torpedo tubes, the new ship is a formidable naval weapon despite her popgun batteries of 8.8-centime-tre (3.4-inch) quick firers...
While the development of military and naval aircraft is being proceeded with in secret, no less than 11,200,000 yen ($5,600,000) was included in the budget last week for the purpose of subsidizing and developing commercial air routes alone...
...that moment ill-and perhaps dying- in the modest house which he occupies in a suburb of Tokyo. The fleet has been built up by men like Admiral Togo, samurai ("military nobles") who went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations, emerging from their mutual war preoccupation, will soon begin again to interpenetrate the Orient in earnest. Beside the problems of defense, Japan is faced with the eventual necessity of seeking new outlets...
Reflections such as these moved the Minister of Marine to say last week: "Our budget for the year balances at 4,077,960,000 yen ($1,999,000,000). Of this only 469,200,000 yen ($230,000,000) is appropriated to naval replacements. . . . Remember that Germany's defeat was due to an economic blockade! . . . We ask only 122,400,000 more yen ($60,000,000), this year, to replace auxiliary craft now ready to be scrapped. . . . Surely Japan is not so poor that she cannot pay this sum to maintain her present fighting strength! . . . The dawn...
...figures 3-5-5 represent the relative naval strengths in capital ships of Japan, the U. S. and Britain (TIME, May 26) at present. In 1905 the figures 1-2-6 represented the relative strengths of these nations in the battle ships then current. Russia, on this latter scale, would have been represented by the figure...