Negotiations for a coal wen the Government ness Men's Party (four which had every semblance o success, have reached a deadlock, which means that the position of the Tanaka Ministry in the new Diet still continues to be precarious. The Government head appointed the Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Finance to carry out the negotiations with Mr, Sanji Muto, a multi-mit-Vionaire cotton magnate and leader impasse was reached when demanded that, in return forgghe support of his' party, the should take measures to abolish the Dusiness profits tax, which the Gove ernment representative said was not possible at this time when sources of revenue were £0 difficult to find.
Mr. Muto, however, is firm on the point of having the business. pro-fire tax abolished and has insinuated that, if the Tanaka Ministry does not avail itself of the opportunity presented of winning over the Busi ness Men's Party in the Diet and the sympathies of Business men all over the country, he was prepared to transfer his allegiance and that of his party to the Opposition provided the "Minseito" would give fan unconditional promise to carry out this reform. It is expected that the Government will eventu: make some concession to the Business Men's Party, as the Govern ment is not in a position to allow any coalition to be wrecked, ¢specially at a time when every vote of the small parties may mean the difference between either the entrenchment of the Tanaka Ministry in power or its downfall.
Smallpox in Tokyo Trahs-Pacific Flight Compulsory vaccination may be resorted to by the Health Buren Tokyo if the present epidemic of smallpox in Japan's capital threatens to take on greater proportions. The twenty-third case since the disease hit Tokyo was ported yesterday. Most of the vie-tims, #0 far, are employees of a glass factory just outside Tokyo, in whic! many Koreans are employed, and has given rise to the theory that the germs of the dis brought here by Koreans mainland. Other experts to the view that the disease ed) here through the eating of "touched" fish, regarded Despite the tragic death of Mfr. Yukichi Goto, one of the four Japanese aviators chosen to make trans-Pacific flight, the Imperial Society has not given up its attempt to secure for the honour of being the firs:
ko a non-stop flight across the world's biggest ocean. A change in the route has been made, however, while the date of the flight has been postponed by a month.
Hanasaki, on the eastern seaboard of the Hokkaido, the largest of Japan's northernimoet, stands, has been chosen as the starting point, while the destination will be either ka, in Alaska, or else Seattle. epicurean delicacy by some classes 7" is new route has tended to shorten Japan.
Voluntary vaccination is protec {ing apace, no less than 4,000 health the distance, the original route was to cover by about 1,000 kilometres. This became necessary because the officials being at work. Last week, a Japanese was, suddenly taken ill on the overhead electric train, A
Subsequent diagnosis showed that he was infected with smallpox germs. The train in which the man travel ed; the stations at which he em-embarked and the Air Bureau here found the machine already constructed incapable of flying the 8,090 miles of the ly-planned. route. It is expected that the flight from Hanasal Alaska or Seattle, via the Kuriles and Aleutian Islands, will take some 40 hours. which he was re-for een issued to all phy-siding were disinfected. Instruc-
sikiang registered in Tokyo and the suburbs to report all suspicions e to the Health, Bureau of the The decision to postpone the date of the flight for one month, from August to September, was largely due to the advice of the skipper of the Arizona Maru, who has erossed the Pacific 93 times and is re-
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