MILITARY BUDGET
New Estimates In Tokio (Received February 2, 7.30 p.m.) TOKIO, February 1. Cabinet has approved estimates of Army and Navy extraordinary military expenditure for the fiscal year of 1941 totalling 4880 million 'yen. They are scheduled for submission to the Diet after the Emperor’s sanction, and they will be financed by bonds to the extent of 3997 million yen. Including the recently passed 1,000, 000,000-yen supplementary expenditures for February and March, the estimates means that tiie extraordinary military expenditure since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities till March. 1942. will total 22,355 million yen. It is announced that rice will be rationed when a household per capita investigation which is to begin on February 8, is completed. A passbook system is planned to effect a fairer distribution on the basis of individual needs, “particularly in the category of labour.”
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 110, 3 February 1941, Page 7
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141MILITARY BUDGET Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 110, 3 February 1941, Page 7
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