Present tax increases were planned to fall within limits that would not have adverse effects upon the ec nomic potentialities of our country.
"Ata meeting today of a taxation reform committee of the House of Representatives, Mr. Hanjiro Oya, Diector of the Bureau of Taxation of the Ministry of Finance, explained the relation of national income to allotments of revenue from taxation, "phe nation's income Is approximately ¥,25,500,000,000 and the total revenue from national taxes, local rates and Government monopolies under "the present tax system amounts to ¥.3,80,000,00;" Mir. Oya "Revision of the taxation system, if enforced, will bring in ¥.4,500,000,000, gum representing 17 per cent, of the nation's income,"—Domel, Nazis Not Allowed on Korean Ferryboats Tokyo, Feb, 17.
Orders of the Ministry of Railways forbidding Government-owned ferry-doats plying between Fusan, Korea, and Shimonoseki from carrying Ger~ mais subject to inclusion in the, Reich's military forces became the subject of a parliamentary debate) here yesterday.
Mr, Tsuruhel Matsuno, Minister of Railways, replying (oan interpellation in the budgetary committee of! the Lower House, said that a notice to that effect od been posted because his department was co-operate ing with the Ministry of Communica~ tions in the enforcement of the latters now regulations, Mr, Masazo Mogami, a member of the Minseito, who made the interpellation, then said that a German, travelling from Harbin to Mexico, had been embarrassed by the action, of the Railways Ministry. The Ger~ man national had taken up the matter with the Japanese authorities in Tokyo, Mr. Mogami sold. The Railways Minister denied knowledge of the. affair—Domel,
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