Tokio, March 31.
The political campaign is drawing to a close. The elections will take place on March 95. The result is doubtful and will certainly be close. Count Okuma is stumping the country. He adopts the American method of making speeches from train window.
Speaking of Osaka the Premier said that Opposition tactics had misrepresented Japan's foreign policy. Hence, the utterances of their organs, reaching England, America, Chine and elsewh created @ false impr Japan's motives. in entering the war and, more especially, of the present negotiations with China, but he believed that time and a little patience would justify all Jepan's actions and show that the expenditure on the Army and Navy were entirely within the necessities of a self Count vast cost of the mere upkeep of the Navy, to which even the much over-talked increases in Korea were quite insignificant, and said that the talk concerning Japan's expenditure on her Army and Navy and also concerning her diplomatic negotiations was largely due to the local political situation and to the Opposition's loose representation of the actions of the Government.—Reuter.
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