Tokyo, Apr. 5.
'A. recent debate in the Japanese Diet revealed that Japanese farmers ft present have debts totalling over '¥.4,000,000,000 (240,000,000) on. which they have to pay, annually, interest amounting to. ¥.460,000,000 (220,500,000), or double the amount they spend on fertilizers. This heavy burden is the cause of much dist and unrest in Close ce-operation between the people and the Army, not only in form but in substance as well, #0 05 vigorously to uplift the nation's collective capacity, was essential to carry out the military replenishment programme, Gen. Sugiyama asserted.
This, the War Minister declared, made it necessary to subordinate all national affairs to the requirements of the Army-—Domel,
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