Show NEW WARSHIP LAUNCHED Japan Increasing Her Fleet Although Vessels Cannot Canote Be Used in inI I Present War Wr Newcastle on T Tyne ne England March Merch 22 Tae new Japanese battleship batt hl Ka Kashima Kashima shima was wits launched today tody at a the Eis wick Mick shipbuilding yard ud here in te e of of Baron Hayashi the te Jap Japanese anee anese minister ter to Great Glet Britain The Time Kashima and her sister ship the Rater I being built buit for fOl Japan at Bar Ba are tons and amid are areto ae aeto areto to have a spee speed of nineteen knots knot Their mair main b will wil consist con of four 12 inch InC guns four guns and twelve guns gun The Te armored belts will isili wi b b be benine nine Inches ieh thick and amid they Ole will wiIl wH have hae havE superstructures of armor in insuring insuring insuring suring that no part pt of the upper works will wi be unprotected Madame Madae Arakawa Arkawa wife of the Japa Japanese Ja Janese Japanese nese consul general at London touched the thc button buton which released ed the ship from the time stocks At the tho luncheon after the th launching Sir Andrew Noble proposed propose toasting the time Japanese empire He s saId sad all al time the th Euro European European nations including Great Britain might night learn lear a lesson leson from froan the Japanese Their course courO prior to the outbreak of the time war and their splendid strategy and the time bravery milton Alien compelled to strike ike together the consistently dignified d igni fled attitude of the government made them theman tem theman an example all al nations I Minister Hayashi who responded said sd the Japanese success on the sea se w is largely lar ely due to the fact that tha more than ha a dozen of their great geat warships wa were built buit in England He was sorry sor the Kashima could not participate in inthe inthe the he war wa but the te war ar must end some som sometime time and thereafter the thc power of the te vessel veel would wold be be b used to maintain peace in Vhf t ar |