HUGE MILITARY BUDGET

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 44, 15 November 1941, Page 9

HUGE MILITARY BUDGET

Anglo-American Plan

(By Telegraph.—Press A*stsn. Copyright.) (Received Nov. 14, 11.15 p.m.) LONDON, November 14.

Mass movements of Japanese troops, tanks and planes are reported to be taking place in the Canton area of South China. Hong Kong messages stated that they were Particularly heavy on Wednesday. A large number of transports were seen coining up the Canton River, and it is understood that British citizens in Canton have been asked to register for evacuation. The Chinese threaten that they will bomb military bases in IndoChina if the Japanese open their attack from that territory.

The speeches to be made by ■ the Japanese Prime Minister General To jo. and other Ministers at the ordinary session of the Diet on Saturday were discussed yesterday at a special meeting of Cabinet in Pokio. Cabinet is understood to have approved of increased taxationi estimated to produce between £10,000.000 and £11,000,000 in the first year. It is described as necessary to cope with the rapidly changing international situation. Vast Sum for Army.

It is announced in Tokio today that the amount required for the military budget is £224,000,000, which is nearly three times the amount considered necessary last spring. The special Japanese envoy to M asnington, Mr. Kurusu, is expected to reach Washington today. The British United Press Washington correspondent reports that the Japanese Embassy denies that the Ambassador, Admiral Nomura, has resigned. Major Fielding Eliot, in an article in the “New York Herald-lribune, predicts that Singapore will probably get six British battleships and two or three aircraft-carriers as a result of American naval assistance in the Atlantic. This force, he says, would not be enough with which to attack the Japanese fleet in its home waters, but the Japanese would not then be able to seek out British ships near Singapore and destroy them, because of English and Dutch shore-based bombers and submarines. Precarious Link. “Japanese doom will be sealed by the presence of these ships,” he says. “She will be able to keep only a precarious link with the Asiatic plainland, and her only means of relief would be to attack and destroy the superior American fleet, and then turn on the British fleet. Japan is thus caught in a trap of her own making. She has not the remotest chance of victory on land, sea or air if she resorts to arms.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation in. Los Augeies seized from Japanese organizations, Including the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, a large quantity of records containing receipts for funds sent to the Japanese army and navy.