The Archive · 1939

Policy of Saving Encouraged

Japanese Firms in North China Tighten Belts

Peiping, June 7.

Falling in step with a Japanese national campaign for the promotion Oi savings, the local staff of the Asia Development Board, from Lieut-Gen. Seiichi- Kita, director-general, down to messengers, will save one-tenth of their salaries beginning this month. The amount will be deducted from their salaries Or wages and deposited in a bank.

The North China Telephone and Telegraph Company, the North China Transit Company and other firms have also launched movements Japanese Diplomat to Get Changchun Post Tokyo, June 7.

Mr. Shigenori Tashiro, the Japanese Consul-General in Tientsin, it is understood, will be appointed Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Manchoukuo Government, This appointment, it is stated, will take effect as soon as the present Bureau of Foreign Affairs at Changchun has been raised to a Foreign Ministry.

Regotiations for securing Mr. Tashiro for the post, are said to have been going on with the Japanese Foreign Office.

Mr. Tashiro will be succeeded by Mr. Yoshio Muto, the First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy in London. to promote savings among their staffs.

The buying of Patriotic Bonds will also be encouraged.—Domei, Admiral Lo Bigot Arrives In Marseilles Marseilles, June 7.

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