Tokyo, Mar. 10.
After bitter criticism in the Diet, the National Mobilization Bill will be studied to-day by a committee of 45 members of the House of Representatives with a view to making amendments, Although further -strong criticism and stormy scenes are expected, informed circles consider that the Pressure of the prevailing situation, arising from the complexities of the China situation. is so great that the Lower House cannot throw it out and in fact, it is agreed that the political parties have lost their power to influence the fate of the Bill, and that it will be passed about March 20, with some modifications, and then sent to the House of Peers, which is also expected to be strongly critical but eventually to approve it.
'A similar bill has already become Jaw in Manchoukuo, The greatest critics of the measure, under which the whole Japanese Empire and whatsoever it contains of men and resources can be put under requisitions "in time of war or of incidents of the nature of war" by the mere issue of an Imperial Ordinance by the Government, have been those who realize its passage presages the end of the pseudo constitutional form of government which has existed in Japan for the past fifty years.
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