No Reduction of Submarines and Auxiliaries Tokio, March 16.
In the Diet to-day, the members of the Opposition in the Lower House are proposing an impeachment on the Government on the general lines of its policy.
Admiral Baron Kato's return has been the occasion of a revival of interpellations of the Government's policy at Washington, especially in the House of Peers, which is now considering the Budget.
The Naval Minister replying to question, stated that the Government did not intend to increase materially the present programme of the building of submarines and auxiliaries and that, it was willing to reduce expenditure as low as possible. He declared that, considering the success of the Conference, it was essentially advantageous to the interests -of Japan to attempt to secure an agreement on naval ratios in a spirit of concession, for whicn reason he proposed the inclusion in the Agreement of the Philippines fortifications, which he regarded as one of the conditions of Japan's acceptance, rather than the Quadruple Agreement, which, while it was a factor in the pre. servation of peace, was not regarded as very essential.
Later.
After a discussion lasting six hours, a vote of nonconfidence in, the Government was defeated by 254 to 141.—Reuter.
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