Show NAVAL CURT I IS ABSORBING nI TC n I Japanese Statement Program Is Old On t T TOKIO April 9 I By B Y the tho Ass t Press Press Renewed Renewed interest In curtailment has been arou Japan by official publication J navy of ot the official statement c I Admiral Kato minster minister of m mi ma mathe the Associated Press In wl will i declared Japan wa was not ends ender to compete with the American and that her project for tor a fleight fl tJ eight battleships and eight s 1 crul cruisers cruiser's ers Is more than eight ye yea and not necessarily irreducible Comment of ot newspapers In Awas A Awas Awas was cabled to Japan and new hero here asked ed the navy I publish the tho statement so that thai I could discuss dill ss it it This was dOlI dot doi The Jiji today calls cans I f tion to the importance of ot non 1 enco on the eight battleship eight cruiser I project and says I grets grots that Admiral Katos Kato's stat sta t was not made earlier |