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Show JAPAN FEARS ANOTHER WAR Is Making Careful and Systematic Sys-tematic Preparation for Trouble With Russia Victoria. April 16. That Japan fears another war with Russia, and is making mak-ing the same careful and syatematlc preparation for It as preceded tho recent re-cent war, Is the news given by passengers passen-gers from Yokohama. Two large battleships of the Dread-naught Dread-naught class are being built, one at Kure, to be named tho Settsu, and tho other at Yokohama, to bo named the Kawachi. Both will be stronger and with larger guns than the big Aid and Satsuma. . An arrival of the Tosa Mam. said that great addition has been made to the fleets of Japan. in military affairs, preparations have been continuous but the greatest secrecy has been maintained. Tho nrmy is being Increased to more than twenty divisions, so that a . force of 1.-000,000 1.-000,000 could be mobilized when necessary. neces-sary. Prior to the last war a half million mil-lion men represented tho total number that could be put in the Held, including all branches, and that number proved to be Inadequate. New arsenals are being established, and to supply the numerous arsenals and depots scattered throughout Japan, the military authorities have constructed construct-ed a central arsenal at Chikusa, near Nagoya. Even in Sagallcn, military preparations are known to bo under way, despite the secrecy. Among other things a military railway is hcln constructed from Korosokovsk to Vlad-iimyovka, Vlad-iimyovka, the scene of the future central cen-tral administration If not of tho whole Island, the Japanese portion. A copy of the Japan Gazette, brought over on the Tosa Mura, says: "Japan papers report that a Japanese Japan-ese retired naval warrant officer was arrested at Shlnagawa on the 27th instant, on suspicion of being concerned concern-ed in the recent attempt to sell secret plans of tho Yokosuska Kure, and Sa-sene Sa-sene naval ports to the Russian embassy." |