The supplementary budget for relief of families of soldiers and sailors totalled Y.10,975,000 bringing the total amount of military compensation for the current fiscal year ending in March to Y.87,869,000, Of the ¥.10,975,000 the sum of Y.10,253,000 goes for living expenses, Y.481,000 for medical expenses, ¥.9,000 for midwife expenses; ¥.203,000 for productive enterprises; ¥.13,000 as extraordinary grants for living expenses, and Y.16,000 for miscellaneous grants.
Explaining the extraordinary Army estimates, Gen. Shunroku Hata, War Minister, said that even on the eve of the construction of a new order in East Asia the situation in China did not permit any remarkable change in Japanese military operations or the numerical strength of the Japanese expeditionary forces in China.
Admiral Zengo Yoshida, Navy Minister, stated that the Y.737,000,000 extraordinary Navy estimate was for naval operations for the next fiscal year for China affairs—Domei.
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