Financial observers predicted today that ¥.6,000,000,000 probably will be appropriated for the special military budget of the War Ministry for the next fiscal year covering a 14-month period from February, 1939 to March, 1940.
'The' sum of ¥.4,000,000,000 will be allotted to the War Office for military expenses compared to Y.3,257,000,000 for the current fiscal year ending in January, 1939, Arrangements for expenditures will be for period from February, 1939 to March, 1940 instead of from February, 1939 to January, 1940, to remove inconvenience arising from the difference between the calendar fiscal year for the China military budget and the budgetary fiscal year for the general national budget.
The special military budget includes appropriations for the China hostilities, Manchurian incident, replenishment of armament and expansion of the air force—Domei.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.