POLITICAL CRISIS IN JAPAN
i | SPEECH BY THE FOREIGN MINISTER Tokio, January 26. The immediate dissolution of the House of Representatives is expected. The Government anticipates a defeat. Tho crisis arose nut of the question of the constitutional status of the. present minority Government. Baron Montono, Foreign Minister, reamrmi'd tho, solidarity of tho Anglo-Japaneso Alliance. In a speech mainly devoted to the relations of China and Japan, ho admitted previous mistakes, but declared that Japan would dissociate herself from the Chinese factions. He reasserted Japan's friendship for China.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. > The. Budget introduced in tho Diet provides for the application of eight millions to the foreign market from the Sinking iEuadj and- the issue, o&
nearly fourteen millions for domestic loans, and one and a. half million supplementary to the naval vote last year. Foreign trade was a. record, the exports amounting to 112 millions and imports to 75 millions sterling.—Eeuter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2989, 29 January 1917, Page 5
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