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Show JAPANESE DECLARE LATEST RUMOR FALSE j TOIvlO, July 13, 10:15 n. m. Bis-: patches to America stating that Japan Las authorized tho construction of four; super-dreadnoughts, are untrue and mis- j leading. According to press reports, ; which nro contradictory, tho navy has 1 submitted to the finance department a : repletion programme to be introduced in tho Japanese diet involving tho expenditure ex-penditure of about 250,000,000 yen in gov en years. This programme calls for , tho construction of throe super-dread -! noughts, two battlo cruisers, numerous 1 light cruisers, destroyers and subma- riues. ! t The puper-dreHdnoughts already com-1 pleted or now building are the Fuso, ' Vamashiro, Tse, Kyuga and Xagato. ' The reported program would fulfill tho naval ambition by the creation of! a, first line fleet of eight super-dread- 1 noughts. Officials of the navy department depart-ment declined today to discuss tho pro- 1 gramme, saying the Japanese press accounts ac-counts of it are surmises. |