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Show JAPAN LOSES IN RACE FOR NAVAL LEADERSHIP LONDON, Dec. 9. Vlee Admiral Baron Sad&kichl Koito, chief of the Japanese naval board of education, ln- tervlewed i the correspondent of the London Time In Tokio. xaid Japan was unable, because of financial and technical reasons, to equal the naval achievements of the leading maritime powers. The statement, the correspondent says, was ln reply to a sugge.it inn thai critics in America and elsewhere saw iin ambition of Jaoun to equal. If : not excel, the naval forces of her most likely future rival. ! Baron Kan I -larcl Jupan can nol build more than the eight capital shlp authorised by the la,st regular diet. bu1 It was lnt . 1 that this should I equal, vessel fo. vessel, those of othet powers and hence the construction ; nf the largest types. The baron said he hoped arma- , ments everywhere would be reduced. |