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Apparently stimulated by the satisfactory result of the Government's drive aiming at Y.800,000,000 savings, the Ministry of Finance has decided to start another campaign for Y.1,000,- 000,000 savings between April, 1939, ud April, 1940. The drive, it is ated, is partly intended to check the "upward tendency of commodity prices and the harmful inflation arising out of the munition boom."
Advanced one day ahead of arrangements, the Government on Thursday evening) presented in the Lower House, the Government -Bills providing for" an extraordinary military budget, in connection with the "China Incident," totalling Y.4- 600,000,000, which was approved by the Cabinet Council on Thursday.
The Lower House is holding today a general meeting of the Budget Committee to make necessary arrangements for the debate on the Bill, which will start on Monday.—
Reuter.
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