JAPANESE DEFENCE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 1956, 22 May 1920, Page 9

JAPANESE DEFENCE.

SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES. By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. (Rcutcr.) - TOKIO, May 19. A special session of the Diet has been called for June 20. The programme includes a Bill making strikes illegal in connection with public utilities, before the submission of the dispute to a Government Arbitration Board. The educational authorities announce the opening in September of a school of aeronautics, originally planned for 1023. Experienced foreign instructors are engaged in the perfection of wireless telephony between warships and airplanes. It is announced that telephones will be installed in all naval planes. The financial disturbance is still in evidence. The'clearing house announces that the dishonoured bills in April were six times those of January, while in May they were worse still.