"Necilless to say, there is a close connection elween the two of an economic war. Fundamentally; negative economic warfare Is more Rice Rationing to Tokyo. Mar. 17.
With an outlay of funds {otalling 100,000, pesos, the Peruvian govern ment has begun settling the claims of victims of the antivJapanese Lima, lots which occurred on May 18 last year. the Boatd of Information an-Rounced at noon today.
According to an official report reaching the Foreign OMce from the Japanese Legation at Lima, the Peruvian government has completed the procedure for payment of solatium amounting to 100,000 pesos as part ff the indemnification for the riot sufferers whose damage already has bboen assessed.
This was confirmed by the Peru: vian Minister, Dr, Ricardo Rivera Schrieber, who under orders from his government informed Mr. Taro Terasaki, director of the Foreign Office's "American Affairs Bureau, that preparations for payment of damages to those victims whose losses already have been assessed have been completed, the communtque added—Domel, Begin in Tokyo Tokyo, Mar. 17.
For the first time since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese conflict in 1937, rice rationing will be enforced in the Tokyo suburban prefecture from April 1.—Domei. vital than the positive variety, since It Is the economic strength of a country which determines the extent to which it Is able to wage: economic hostilities of a positive character, "In examining the present economic position of Japan, we find that the prosecution of the China affair has cost the nation a tremendous amount of material, The hostilities in China may be blamed to a large extent for the shortage of commodities we are suffering at the moment. However, there is no suggestion that Japan's economic strength has been drained to any serious extent,
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