“PLEASANT” COMEDY.
JAPAN’S BIG VOTES FOR ARMS. A pleasant comedy is being played in Japan, writes the correspondent of the Manchester Guardian in that country. The Army and the Navy between them want £50.000;000, but every Government Department is also in equally urgent need of extra expenditure, and the Finance Minister is at his wits’ end in devising ways to find the money. Tlie Army and the Navy want the £50,000,000, not merely in order to carry on, but for chemicalisation and all the modern equipment of war. The Finance Minister, Count Takaliaslii, sternly objects to increasing the taxes, but the Defence Minister insists on them. Count Takahashi can borrow £63,500,000 in 1934 or 1935, but Admiral Osumi and General Araki, the Services Ministers concerned, are not content.
General Araki has inspired the populace to such a pitch of patriotism that they might accept higher taxation as eagerly as they have already submitted to lower interest. Count Takahashi inclines to letting Manchurian exploitation repay the loans which it lias made necessary.
The Navy will be satisfied with a contribution of £7,500,000 in next Budget towards that programme. Chinese aircraft, with American fliers from Manila, haunt the Japanese imagination.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1933, Page 8
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198“PLEASANT” COMEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1933, Page 8
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