The Archive · 1935

Huge Defence Costs

'The General Budget for' the ne' Jascal year totals ¥.2,198.414.000, of which war expenditure, both army and navy, constitutes 48.6 per cent, [that is, ¥.2.022.641,000, This growth fof war expenditure Is, needless to leav, caused by the prevailing situa tion, Yet it presses on the attention fof the Japanese people more force fully the urgent need to harmonize ational defence with national "The Navy Department's estimates [include the following:—a Tokyo, Jan. 14 Replacement of outmoded light and heavy bombers by the Japanese army authorities by new, speedier and more deadly machines was revealed to-day in an official release which simultaneously lifted the veil 1. Cost. of reorganizing fraintaining the naval rit 8.700000, 12,207,000

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