Show NEW JAPANESE NAVY Three FirstGlass Battleships Three Armored Cruisers and Two Sec ondClass to Be Built Toklo June 12VIa Victoria B C Juno lTho Japanese naval critics are JOW drawing the plans of the warships estimates for tho construction of which were recently passed by the Diet In all eight vessels will bo built Including three firstclass battleships of tho Shlklshlma type three armored crulsors of tho Asa ma type and two secondclass cruisers of the Chlloso typo All tho cruisers will be built In Japan and the battleships will be ordered from abroad I la I expected that tho authorities In the present fiscal year will Issue an order for a battleship to bo completed In three years and for tho two others afterward Thero may be more Improvements In tho construction of theee vesehmm than those constructon designed last year I will be some months yet before construction begins abroad O no bids have yet been Invited from foreign shipbuilders |