Tt is also, perhaps, feared that the loose allocation of such a lade "mount might lead to future com-
This unofficial committee, howe ever, has made substantial progress during the interval. With the exception of the Japanese its members seem to have accepted the principle of a total surtax on re-Yenue of approximately $90,000,000. The Japanese have not gone so far, but they have reached the neighbourhood of $70,000,000, and ae-cording to unofficial Japanese retts, Mr. Saburi, chief technical adviser, on his return from Tokyo, will offer an increase based on The position, therefore, is that while formal meetings are not being held, the delegates are doing all possible to agree on principles, ard to prepare the masses of detail that must be arranged before a final conclusion can be veached.—Reuter's Pecifie Service.
Japanese Expert to Peki with New Proposals Tokyo, Feb. 5.
Mr, 8. Saburi, director of the Commercial Bureau of the Foreign
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