Tokyo, Mar. 22.
This morning the sub-committee of the Upper House- unanimously assed the estimates of the War and Navy Departments and decided to commit the Naval Budget to a full session of the Upper House with the suggestion that the Government should for the country's fuel policy, considering it essential from the standpoints of industry and national defence that Japan should be self-supporting with regard to fuel.
The sub-committee also intends to recommend that the Government should carry out its auxiliary ship programme with a view to maintain. ing present strength, as it considers the country's financial condition warrants this expenditure—Reuter's Pacific Servic Note: It was proposed last December that the Naval Replacement programme should be postponed pending an improvement in the Jeconomie situation in Japan.
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