HEAVY BILL
JAPAN'S ARMY AND NAVY
TOKIO, February 1,
Cabinet has approved estimates of army and navy extraordinary military expenditure for the fiscal year of 1941 totalling 4880 million yen (over (£300,000,000). 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 (£250,000,000).
Including the supplementary expeiv ditures of 1000 million yen (£63,000,000) for February and March, vhich was passed recently, the estimates mean that the extraordinary military expenditure since the outbreak- of the Sino-Japanese hostilities till March, 1942, wii: total 22,355 million yen (£1,270,000,000). 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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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 28, 3 February 1941, Page 6
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146HEAVY BILL Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 28, 3 February 1941, Page 6
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