JAPANESE BUDGET

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 145, 22 June 1938, Page 11

JAPANESE BUDGET

I EXPENDITURE UP, REVENUE DOWN (Received June 22, 9.15 a.m.) TOKIO, June 21. The Minister of Finance announces that the net Budget figures for 193839 will show revenue amounting to £372,000,000, a decline of £20,000,000, and expenditure. £358,000,000, an increase of £17,000,000., This is distinct from the special war Budget of £283,000,000. *

BOMBERS RAID WUCHOW

(Received June 22, 9 a.m.) TOKIO, June 21. Eight Japanese bombers raided suburbs of Wuchow, 150 miles east of Canton.

LANDING REPULSED

i The following cablegram was received by the Chinese Consul from Hankow this morning:— "Yesterday afternoon over 1000 enemy troops landed at Tikiang—on the south bank of the Yangtie River, about 60 kilometres south-west of Wuhu.' We vigorously attacked them the same evening, inflicted heavy losses on them and compelled them to return to their i vessels. At the same time we recaptured Nieushiling and Fengwhangshan, important positions in the vicinity of Tikiang."

at the time of the Metropolitan-Vickers case in Russia owing to their sympathy with General Franco.

He replied to suggestions sometimes made by back-bench supporters of the Government that the ships subject to attack had no right to the protection of the British flag and were trading with pgrts in Government Spain dsspite the known risks only 2or the purpose «f reaping enormous profits.

His case was that the Government seemed incapable of making a stand against the demands of the dictatorship States and he contended that if only they would show firmness the situation, instead of steadily deteriorating, would be, found to-improve.