1st Quarter
January 1, 1927
Today is the big day. Today Japan’s Pacific Mandate becomes independent.
“A glorious day indeed,” Kapono Upskamkook, Pacifica’s newly elected president told AWNR. “For a while it seemed as if it would never happen, but Lady Tsugako made it all possible. It is a bit messy at the moment. I must admit that, but with the help of a few foreign advisors, we will soon sort out every thing.”
January 2, 1927
Yesterday the keels were laid down of the carriers Soryu and Hiryu. These two ships will use Japan’s remaining tonnage of the Carrier Category and will be the first true purpose build carriers for the Imperial Navy. These vessels will have a displacement of almost 20,000 tons. The 150,000 shp engine output will be able to push the ship past 30 knots with ease. It has space for a maximum of 60 operational aircraft.
January 4, 1927
The Imperial Navy has handed over a report to the Shogun, which contained a list of the expected warship construction for this year and the next 4 years. This list was also made available to AWNR for publishing. It is the first time that such a list has been made public by the Imperial Navy in almost 15 years.
For 1927 (planned): 2 carriers, 1 coast defense ship and 22 destroyers.
For 1928 (probable): 5 cruisers, 10 destroyers
For 1929 (probable): 4 cruisers
For 1930 (probable): 2 Battle cruisers, 6 cruisers, 4 coast defense ships
For 1931 (probable): 4 cruisers, 20 destroyers
February 3, 1927
We congratulate the Filipino diplomatic attaché Ricardo de la Hoya with his new job at the Filipino Consulate in Godthåb, Greenland, Nordmark. We certainly are hoping for some frigid stories from that area to be coming our way pretty soon.
Hang in there Senjor de la Hoya! Only 30 more years before the government allows you to retire.
^_^
February 6, 1927
The
Mugen Heiki Kenkyuu Kaihatsu Bunka (Professor Tomoe’s R&D Department) has taken over the Warship Design Bureau, which will now be known as
Mugen Gunkan Kenkyuu Kaihatsu Bunka. Professor Tomoe told AWNR that he believes that it is far more efficient to have the weapons department and warship department together in one building in several cities rather than having them in separate buildings in several cities.
Will we see radical changes in the designs that the as
Mugen Gunkan Kenkyuu Kaihatsu Bunka will create, or will they remain similar to the ones that the bureau created before the take-over?
March 12, 1927
Disaster was avoided this morning after a fire broke out aboard the ammunition ship Okesa Maru at the Yokosuka Naval Base. The crew acted swift and managed to get control of the fire rapidly. Damage to the ship is rather light with some fire damage to the kitchen and the adjacent corridor running through the ship. 20 members of the crew, mostly kitchen personnel trying to get the fire out, were taken to the hospital.
March 25, 1927
It was established today that faulty electrical wiring running through the corridor caused the fire aboard the Okesa Maru. Originally it was thought that the fire originated in the kitchen, but now it is obvious that the wires are the culprits.
As a result the Okesa Maru and her sister ships, the Mutsu Maru and the Tenyo Maru, are undergoing a thorough check of the wiring, as the three were all build by the same private shipyard during the last decade.
2nd Quarter
April 1, 1927
Page 1:
[SIZE=4]ALIENS INVADE EARTH![/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]Several important politicians abducted and replaced.[/SIZE]
Page 2
APRIL FOOLS!!! No aliens here, loyal readers! ^_^
April 3, 1927
Several letters of citizens arrived at our office today, complaining about our “Alien Invaders” gag for April 1.
We apologize to our readers and hope to come with a more original April fools article next year.
May 9, 1927
It seems that it has happened again to our Filipino Ally as another one of its ships blew up while visiting Saigon on May 6. People are already placing bets as to which ship will be the next one to get a taste of the power of an explosion.
May 15, 1927
There is some alarm among the citizens with the announcement by the Russian Federation of shifting several of its battleships from the Baltic to the Pacific.
May 16, 1927
Statement from our glorious and beautiful Shogun:
“ The accusations of the right wing propaganda factories in France and the Philippines are all lies. Who do they think they are? They act as if
they are the only ones who speak for their nation, and hurl
idiotic accusations at the other nation. How long before they begin to act as if
they govern the nation?
“ They were not there when it happened. They only saw the aftermath. But at that point their poisonous minds began to create these ridiculous twisted accusations. They hope that with their lies they can influence the citizens and turn them against the governments or worse. It is quite possible that their lies will poison the minds of the politicians as well.
“Their ideas are dangerous.
They are dangerous. They should be dealt with, swiftly and with style. To be honest, for all I know,
they are the ones who sabotaged to Palawan in order to get a good story of
lies for their newspaper.
“An investigation will hopefully tell us exactly what happened. Hopefully the truth will prevail and defeat those lies that have been send into the world by the
idiots who sabotage World Peace.
“Regarding the Russian actions, there are people who say that we should consider this shift of Russian naval power to the Pacific as a threat to SATSUMA. I do not see it this way. Russia stretches from Europe all the way to this region. They have a right to station warships on this end of the Eurasia continent. As long as we behave and they behave, then there is no reason why we should be hostile toward each other.
“However there is some concern regarding a rumor that Atlantis will shift some forces to the region as well. The Atlantean government hasn’t said anything about shifting their forces to this part of the world... however, they haven’t said anything about
not shifting their forces to this part of the world either.
“I can tolerate the additional presence of Russian Warships in this region, but the Atlanteans have no need to be here, even if France is their ally. It’s much more logical to send out more Russian warships here because they have interests in this region (i.e. eastern end of Russia) rather than Atlantean (who have no possessions at all in this region).
“Still if in the end the Atlantean government
does decide to send ships to this region, as long as they behave, we shall behave as well. After all, there is no reason why we should be hostile toward each other.”
We at AWNR: CFPJ are somewhat surprised that she made comments on those newspapers and pretty much nothing on the incident at Saigon.
May 23, 1927
It is with sadness that we see Filipino Foreign Minister Sebastien de Varga leave his position. We wish him the best of luck with the next job he will get.
June 19, 1927
The Filipino government seems to be dissatisfied again with a certain aspect of a certain ship from a certain ship class from a certain nation for a certain nation.
The nations involved, *bleep* and *bleep*, have asked AWNR: CFPJ to remain anonymous...
Whoops! Should not have mentioned those two names.
^_^;;
June 21, 1927
Uh oh! Looks like that nationalistic Atlantean newspaper is stirring up some trouble. Does seem to go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and...
*gasps for air*
But it does appear that those nationalists are extremely simpleminded. I have no idea at all about naval ships or the Cleito Treaty but a friend explained this to me (and I surely hope that this news presentation will be showed in Atlantean theaters so that those idiots can see it):
If one adds a catapult or two on it and it can serve more than 10 airplanes, even though it is still an auxiliary ship, it no longer falls in the unlimited category of ships according to Part 3, Chaper H, Article I (c) points 8 and 9 (whatever that says).
June 30, 1927
Wow! It is truly a miracle. It’s the end of the first half of the year and Colonel Oonishi Manzo has not caused any problems so far this year! Let’s hope that it stays that way.
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