Huge military appropriations were criticized by members of two Teading parties on the ground that the funds remaining in the national coffers could not care for other needs of the country.
'Mr. K. Kawasaki, of the Minseito, declared that the' military apzropriations amounted to a halt of the total national budget, and stressed the point that no national defence could be adequate if the national resources behind it were exhausted.
Mr. K. Takahashi, of the Seyuki questioned Gen. S. Hayashi, Minister lof War, on the war budget, "which, hho said, was so large that no funds were left to care for the rural dis-riots. "The budget provides for national defence, but fails to provide relict for the farmer. who is the real basis of defence," raid Mr. Takahashi.
Tu reply, the Ministers of Finance, War and 'Navy, declared that the budget has met' with national aproyal, but they promised to guard against the future expansion of mill-
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