for War Budget Tokyo, Feb. 2.
Government neglect of the di tressed agricultural districts in favour of more and more appro-Prlations for the Army and "Navy was bitterly attacked in both houses of the Japanese Diet, to-day.
iseount M. Saito, the Prom, has been made the target of Teproach by speakers for two. days because of the failure to heed, the pleas of the farmers for" aid. The movement started in the House of Representatives, spread to. the House of Peers and has now taken up by the political parties asa whole, Fearing that the attacks lead to another Government Viscount Saito announced. that. he would approve of as much addi: tional "funds. to the budget " for agricultural relief as_possible.
Holding t the belief of General Araki, his predecessor in office, General 'S./ Hayashi, recently:
pointed Minister of War, lent full support to the drive for farm relief, Admiral "M. Ohsumi, Minister of Navy, made no state: ment to-day but' it was recalled that last week, when " agricultural relief" was being discussed, he de-wrod that "national defence" was the, most important problem and that other issues, including aid to secondary in im:
General Hayashi told the House
Grea in the agricultural districts Representatives to-day that dis. fof Japan had an immediate. effect ripon the Army's morale because most the Japanese soldiers come from agricultural. districts. 'The War' Office, he said, has a. greater Interest in' agricultural questions than any other ministry,
ning a new relief proposal whic "War Sinister now plan. hevwill submit to Viscount "Saito jand'other_members of the Cabinet when the Diet adjourns, Following the issuance of a warning by the Seiyukai Part recently, the Kokumin Dome, majority party in the Lower House, today issued "a sharnly-worded statement, demanding that the Government should give more atten: tion to the relief of farmers who, reported that a resolution of all political parties in the Lower House will be presented, blamine the "present Government for failure of the the "dra tural relief funds.
United Press.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.