Tokyo, May 12, Two submarines built by the Mitsubisht Heavy Industry Company to the order of the Siamese Navy Ministry will be launched at the firm's dockyards in Kobe on May 14 The '370-ton craft will develop a surface speed of 145 knots with length, 51 metres; beam, 4-1 metres; draught, 36 meires—Domel, JAPAN'S ELECTION LAW, fo, May 13, Gen, Take}i Nara, former' chief ADE, to the Emperor, and Dr. Torasiburo Araki, formerly President of the Imperial University in Kyoto and the Peers School in Tokyo, have been appointed members of the Privy Important national reforms in Japan are foreshadowed by the Privy Counlls action to-day in approving the National Planning Board created by the Prime Minister, Gen, Senjuro Hayashi, "The Board begins work to-morrow and, according tothe "Yomiuri Shimbun," will devote its immediate attention to. drafting a Bill revising the election law, formulate an econo-mie Polley covering Japan and Manchoukuo and a policy for supply of ron in Japan—Reuter, power would hinder Increase In pro-Jduction without which all efforts to Jeontrol commodity prices would remain fruitless, Finally, the financiers pointed out, [pay increases granted in recent weeks {by' major industrial concerns would {ead to discontent in the ranks of the white-collar class," not similarly benefited. Therefore a new cycle of strikes is inevitable,
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