Tokyo, Feb. 10.
Japan's. rice worries ake over, at least for this rice year, Me. Toshio Shimada, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, reported tothe budget com mittee of the House of Representatives yesterday.
More than $00,000,000 bushels of the grain would be available during the rest of this rice year, which ends this autumn, he stated when questioned by Mr. Kenzo Matsumura, a member of the Minseito Party.
Of this amount about 23,500,000 bushels had been transferred from the last rice year; 945,000,000 bushels would be produced in Japan proper; 50,000,000 "bushels produced In. Formosa; and 70,000,000 bushels raised Korea.
Approximately 475,000,000 bushels of rice would be consumed at home, the MBnister said, and about " 5,000,000 bushels shipped abroad, leaving 23, /500,000 bushels avallable at the end of the rice year.—Domel, se occupation of several Indo-China border towns in the past month, the spokesman said, Japan proved to her own satisfaction' that such supplies wore being shipped to. Chungkint {from Indo-China, despite the denial lof French offciais—United Press, US, Hectoring Tokyo, Feb. 9.
The "Japan Times yesterday Jcharacterized American representations over the Japanese bombing of the Yunnan French-owned railway protests "by another country without the necessary authority 10 Jmake such representations under the Jaws and usages of war."
'Such attacks on European raile ways must have been numerous in the present war in which remote Instances of losses by American' merchants have been detectable," the paper said, "but we have yet to hear fof any American protest, grave or slight, related to the European eases, Washington confines its hectoring to tone quarter of the globe."—United Press.
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