plenishment of National Resources hat elresdy been studied by. the National Planning Board, and wil be worked out in close ce-operation and ce-ordination with the Six-Year: National Defence Plan, which was: started by the Army last year, and. also the - Five-Year Industrial Development Plan of Manchoukuo, The Plan calls for the ce-ordinated development of industrial, economy and financial resources, with special stress on the development of heavy industries.
As decided at yesterday's Cabinet meeting. the counsellors of the National Planning Board, composed of the permanent. vice-Ministers of the various departments, conferred this morning to elaborate the Four-Year Plan for the Replenishment of Ni ional Resources which is expected completed before January 22, when the Diet will meet. again, fol-Towing the New Year recess—Reuter.
War Costs Soaring Tokyo, Jan. 8.
The Government will ask the Diet! to appropriate between ¥.4,000,000,000 and ¥.5,000,000,000 to cover the cost of hostilities in China for a year be-sloning April 1 next, Domei learned. to-day. ton, while the remainder will obtained through large-scale borrow~ ug. The Treasury has already de elded to transfer. ¥.97/000,000 from Tokyo, Jan, 4.
Arms and" ammunition are being. jeent to China by three routes, Jcording to Japanese despatches Ing. nets, however, were still pending received here to-day.
Officers and members of the craw Tieso are, it is. stated, firstly, vie ald that they left Yokohama two Sinkiang and Kansu Provinces from days ego. and, had anchored the Soviet - Union, secondly, via Kawasaki because of high winds and French Indo-China. and Yunnan seas as the Tesult of an approaching. Province, and thirdly, via Hongkong storm, The freighter had a cargo of and Canton. coal and was bound for Chinwangtao Information from Yunnan Province, and Singapore but had "discharged the despatches add, show that the most of the cargo.at -Kawasakl when, Chinese National Government is {It was detained—United Press. planning to add another route by ullding a road between Burma and Yunnan.
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