The Archive · 1938

PASSES CABINET

Diet to Consider "Incident"

Cost of ¥.4,850,000,000

Tokyo, Feb. 25.

Japan's extraordinary budget in [connexion with the "China Incident," providing for ¥.4,850,000,000 has been approved by the Cabinet and sanc-foned by the Throne, and will be submitted to the Diet'on Monday.

The new appropriation is expected to cover the whole of the, military jand naval operations in China for the financial year beginning April 1, Of the total of ¥.4,850,000,000, fully 3,260,000,000 will go to the War Aimee, Y. 1,040,000,000 to the Navy mice, and 'Y._ $50,000.00 to the Ministry of Finance, About 4,480,000,000 of the amount will Be raised by bond issues, and the rest by

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