JAPANESE EXPENDITURE.
POINTED QUESTIONS,
(Times Cables.) Received January 29, 11.55 a.m
LONDON, Jan. 28. The Tokio correspondent of the Times states tlint Mr Seiynkaiiti Kunitoshi Tsugumo demanded in the course of the Budget debate an explanation of Japan's army estimate of £180,000,000. He pointedly questioned the Finance and Commerce Ministers, who refused to give information. The Finance Minister, however, declared that the Government was doing its utmost to assure ample supplies of war materials. Mr llyntaro Nagai (Minister for Communications) said that at the Aeronautical Research Institute proposed under the five-year plan the world's best five hundred civilian pilots would be trained per year i>eginning on April 1. Twenty-eight airfields would be established and international air routes opened as a result of negotiations with other "countries. The War Office has announced that Japanese soldiers in Manchuria and North and Central China, when thentime expires, will be disbi nded and allowed to settle where they are at present stationed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 10
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