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Show 1 JAPAN PLAP.'S TO MEET U. S. SHIP COMPETITION H.v l. V I ICIC . International Vcws Service Staff Cor-reepomlent. Cor-reepomlent. TOKIO, Jan. 1", Consideration of ; v - ivs ahd nuans to meet the shipping competition to be offered by the Qhlt-ed Qhlt-ed Slat shipping board has occupied """ tin iinie of department of communications officials here recont-jly. recont-jly. Thus far. there have been manv suggestions made, most of them olm-ed olm-ed .t methods thai win pei-suade the Unlti d States to modify the new Jonoa bill. Theyc falling other methods will undoubtedly he employed. I Japan, often re. erred to fondly by her politicians and statesmen as the "England of the Kur East," because of her Island empire, 1 proud of her navy today, proud.-,- perhaps Hkcii ( nv oilier oi-lier other possession- Sv stories that multiply In Toklo all have to do with the new Voiirht battle cruisers" or some other activity concerning the navy of Japan. These arc all quite groundless. .J,c.our; but they go to show the p-eal p,i,lP holt, by tnp JapftncBe ppo. I pie for the navy. Consequently. If the United States builds ships ind It is l plain that Hie Cnited S.ates is build-! Ing more of them all the time it willj bo easy to convince the Japunese peQ. t pie that more ships for the merchant I marine must be built for the protection of the Islands of Jap . ,, Recently it was announced from .Toklo ihat the C. P. O. S ships which make the distance across the Pacific! from Yokohama to Vancouver in nine 'lays, would havo to cut down their i "' n they expected to compete with the new Japanese boats planned for I the 1'acitic ocean in the next few ye.,, , While this report is taken thus f.ir only as a report, it is undoubtedly true , ;'V,h;; ')ro"!i of faster boats for! If t i V iWl" be one of tn results, !rhl'.,Z"sIPP,nS War' " sawar ma- oo |