Additional ¥.100,000,000 Required This Year: Bigger Navy Demands Tokyo, June 21.
Mounting Japanese public interest in the. question of harmonizing defence costs with the state of national finances, to-day took 3 new spurt forward' when the Wat Ministry's projected demands for the 1936-37 fiscal year became known.
Following conference with It Gen. T, Hashimoto, Vice-Ministes, and "Maj-Gen, T. Nagato, director of the Military' Affairs Bureau of the Ministry, Gen. S. Hayashi, Minister of War, disclosed that his Office proposed to ask for a sum ranging between ¥.500,000,000 and ¥.600,000,000, which is almost "¥.100,000,000 more than this yea! appropriation of While Navy authorities still maintain discreet. silence, high officials have stated that the sea arm will not reduce its demands upon the national treasury, but rather increase them, probably in the same proportion as the Army. The Navy this year will spend ¥.580,000,000.
Representatives of both services insist that the "emergency period, Which Japan entered in 1981, has not
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