The general account budget for Manchoukuo for the ard. year of} Kangte shows that according to estimated revenue and expenditure the budget will balance at Yuan 219,405,000, Ordinary expenditure is" expected to total Yuan 134,322,810 and Extraordinary; Yuan} 185,082,100. Some of the items' which come under this head give subjects for interesting comparison. Thus the largest. sum that is spent by any department is Yuan 73,545,130 by' the Department of Defence. The General Affairs Board accounts for Yuen 48,000,000, the Department of Civil Affairs, Yuan 40,000,000, and Department of Finance, Yuan 25,000 000, from which it would appear that Manchoukuo is spending about ten er cent. of its revenue to collect it All the other departments will each spend, it Is estimated, less than Yuan 16,000/000, the Depariment of Justice coming highest with Yuan 986,130. Yuan 5,000,000 will be spent on educa~ tion while only a million and a half will be disbursed by the Department of Foreign Affairs. It is obvious that 20 long as Manchoukuo remains recognized this item will remain small, but directly it is possible to exchange representation with other notions it may reasonably be expected that this total will be very considerably increased. The expenditure of a little over two per cent, of the ordinary and extraordinary 1 venues of the new state upon educa-ion suggests that much has yet 10] be done before the necessity of spreading knowledge throughout Manchoukuo receives that attention
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