ANXIETY IN TOKIO

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 9

ANXIETY IN TOKIO

COUNTING THE COST MOUNTING BUDGET CHARGES AGAINST BRITAIN TOKIO, September, 5. A supplementary . Budget presented to* the Diet increases current, expenditure to £321,000,000, and brings the bond issue for the same period to £300,000,000. In other words, Japan's National Debt has increased by one-third within six months. Financial circles arc asking how long hostilities will last, and fear that the crescendo of expenditure will lead to disaster. The Tokio Press Increasingly charges Britain with encouraging Chinese resistance. One leading publicist says: "It is an Anglo-Japanese, not a SinoJapanese war. It is absurd to counsel care not to alienate British sympathy." Meanwhile Japanese militarists and business men are urging the strengthening of the Berlin-Tokio Pact against the Communist International. The Dotnei News Agency alleges that 29 planes manned by Russians are active at Shanghai and also that the Soviet is sending 250 planes,/100 guns, and 150 anti-aircraft guns to China.^