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Bingham News | 1922-07-08 | Page 4 | Japan will Drop 10,000 Men

Type issue
Date 1922-07-08
Paper Bingham News
Language eng
City Bingham Canyon
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Japan will Drop 10,000 Men
Type article
Date 1922-07-08
Paper Bingham News
Language eng
City Bingham Canyon
County Salt Lake
Page 4
OCR Text ' ! Ill JAPAN WILL DROP 10,000 MEN Turns Cruisers Into Plane Carriers In Line With Naval Pact of Arms Conference. Tokyo, Japan. Ten thousand men and several hundred officers will be dropped from the Japanese navy In line with the scrapping agreements reached at Washington arms conference, confer-ence, according to on official of the Navy department. Thos discharged will receive compensation from the government. The cruisers Amagi and Akgi, which Japnn gave up under the Washington Wash-ington treaty, will be converted Into alrplarve carriers. Each has a ton-nage ton-nage of 20,000. and will be reconditioned recondi-tioned to carry SO airplanes. Another currier, the Ilosho. 0.000 tons, wIJJ have s capacity of 20 planes.
Reference URL https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pz9966/54660