Tux Sciynkei Party will shortly bring forward in the Japanese Diet a proposal erging apon the Goveroment the necessity of improving the harbours Yokohams, Kobe and other open ports, and of establishing speedy communication between land and sea, The party is under the impression that the negative policy of the present Government will deter the development of national resources in Japan, and for this reason the undertakings above referred to should be speedily carried out loan either at home or abroad, Terauchi, War Minister for Japan, in reply to ® question in the Budget Committee meeting of the Lower House on January 31 as to whether there was sny present ides of increasing the Army to twenty-five! divisions, admitted that such was the case, bat added that national defence mast always be in consonance with neial resources. He denied that his remark (made incidentally) that the foreign Powers were competing with each other in increased armaments bad soy connexion with the twenty-five division proposal in Japan.
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