Preference will be given at all times fo materials required for munitions, industrial expansion and export promotion, in that order, and the quantities for private consumption will be restricted severely, according to the Japanese press. At the same time, the materials mobile imation programme will be closely interrelated to the Government's price-control policy.
The Japanese "Government is depending on national ce-operation for the success of the programme, stressing its intrinsic and essential relationship with the plans for the expansion of national production and the promotion of Japan's export trade, both of which are considered primary requisites for the successful solution of the "China Incident" and the strengthening of national defence.
Through its economic police force, the Home Ministry will play a leading role in enforcement of the ration-
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