Three Cabinet Members Tell Diet of Intention Tokyo, May 18.
Three members of the Cabinet today informed the Diet of the Government's intention to seck peaceful economic expansion southward.
Such expansion, Mr. Hachiro Arita, Foreign Minister, told Lower Chamber, would prove of benefit to peoples both of Japan and of the South Seas regions.
Up to now, Mr. Hidejiro Nagato, Minister of Overseas Affairs, add Japan has been pursuing a ' "north, fern" policy. The Government and the people, he added, feel that time has come to turn southward.
This feeling, he pointed out, was responsible for the introduction of a law providing fou the control of shipping routes, and also for the establishment of the Formosan Colonization Company.
The Navy Office's intention to pursue a peaceful "southern" policy was revealed by Admiral Osami Nagano, Navy Minister, in explaining the law for the establishment of the Formosan concern.—Domel.
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