Foreign News: Scrap

Last week London agents of Japan's Imperial Government admitted that they had bought the 14,8784011 Megantic, the 12,015-ton Arcadian and enough smaller British ships to make a fleet of 40,000 tons.

Soon this fleet will sail to Japan. "There it will be broken up," firmly stated the London agents. Chinese of course had another explanation. Japan's purchase looked to them like a fleet of transports bought to carry Japanese soldiers to the mainland of China.

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