The Archive · 1939

Amny Aiming at Two-Power Standard; Friction With Navy Reported Over Swollen Estimates

Tokyo, Feb. 5.

NHE supplementary budgets for the J

.panese Army and Navy for the financial year starting April 1 are expected to wish to effect an "absolute guidance of China in all things" or'to Ttis alleged that 100 Soviet soldiers six thousand million yen, equivalent to about £350,000,000, carty out a policy of "self-aggrandizement" on the continent, the crossed the frontier near Hengkosili, The Army expenditures alone, including Ordina: y, Emergency War Minister, Lt.-Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, declared in the House of and opened fire on a Manchoukuo and Extraordinary appropriations, will total roughly 5,400 mil [border station. Manchoukuo guards, Representatives this afternoon.

Replying to interpellations, the itis stated, returned the fire, and yen—nearly £320,000,000—accor ling to figures presented by the War Minister said he had been informed that Marshal Wu Pei-fu "after more' than an hour's fighting, War Office to the Ministry of Finance for approval. The Army had started a campaign for peace in the belief that he should [the Soviet troops withdrew, leaving total was 3,821 million yen, or £2: 000.000, for the current save the Chinese people from distress; the War Minister udded five dead and three wounded, financial year.

"There were no casualties among that he had not heard that Marshal Wu "i tended to establish a The estimates for the coming your the Japanese," it is claimed. have been drafted on the basis of new regime in ion to the Provisional and Reformed Govern-

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