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THE JAPANESE NAVY
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A statement made by Paymaster Captain Katariri (retired), appearing in Sunday's Kokumin was the subject of several questions in the Diet recently. In this statensont Captain Katagiri şnya it was the corruption prevalent in the Japanese Navy that drove him to resign. The giving and receiving of commission in the Navy, he saye, is no new story. It goes back to a time prior to the China- Japan War. Since that date, whenever the Navy has placed with any foreign firm an order for warships or other goods,
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has in fact become so habitual that the authorities seem to think it their due, The fact that so many naval officers are wealthy is due to this. A certain Admiral is known to have not only a large banking account in Japan, but also in England. It is no exaggeration to say that this wealth is largely made up of commissions. It is easy to give the names of the corrupt officials, but for various reasons he refrains from doing so at present
The Paymaster mentions the case of a certain leading offer who, at the time of the China-Japan War, urged upon the then Chief of the Naval General Staff, Admiral Count Kabayama, and Viscount Watanabe, then Finance Minister, the For necessity of expanding the Navy the purpose of purchasing arms and. ammunition and materials for the estab lishment of the present Naval Arsenal at Kure be went to England and made large purchases, taking advantare of the foot that in view of the time of emergency the Government could not be as particular in its dealing with the appropriation as at By this purchase he ordinary times.
The took a largo sum in commission fact that the giving and taking of com- missions is no evil in the eyes of foreign merchants was a great temptation for him in demanding the largest possible sum." The Naval Arsenal of Kure has been No established by such unjust measures.
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It is a measures to deal with him, deplorable circumstance that the news papers, eager to seize upon sensations, publish false reports."
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INTEREST ALLOWED ON CURRENT ACCOUNTS. The corruntion of the Fleet Admin.
Deposits received for fixed periods at rauer After the ceremony the King, who was istration Deparbuent is no less appalling
FISHI ONO, than that of the Arsenal, and each year,
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exceedingly amiable and communicative to be obtained on application. to the Pressmen of Madrid, spoke (says- the commissions are included under ordinary
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Hongkong, 30th September, 1913, expenditure. The estimate of commie- sions with orders for war vessels is really
Observer) of his project for constructing EXPLOSIVES IN CIGARS. The construction of war
coltages at Sevillé and in El Pardo for wonderful. vesels costs from Y.800 to Y.000 per ton.
Admiral Tseng, Military Governor in the men who work in the Real Patri-THE But this is estimated at Y.1.000. Thus it will be seen that Y.30,000,000 is estimated Shanghai, on Tuesday received a telemonio" (Royal estate).
"My project," said his Majesty, "is where it requires only Y 25,500,000 for the gram from the Tutuh of Canton, anting construction of a vessel of 20,000 tons, that on January 24th, the notorious putting the expenditure at Y.850 per ton. robber Sun Ko-ming and over ten of his to make a kind of garden city between It is therefore, a great mistake to followers were captured in the district the Queen's Bridge and the Quinta-road, supposons is done by a section of the of Hsiangshan, and that, upon being and I are estimated the cost in some
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they confessed being in league with the rebel party. They feld the judge that cigars, each containing a quarter of an ounce of explosive powder, were being made in the hope that they might reach the bands of some oficials Over a score I can cite another instance. I was and cause their deaths. sent to England as one of the officers to special cigar-makers were said to have been engaged in this work and some 150 Before I em- bring out the fashion, barked a paymaster had made a contract boxes of theso cigars, elegantly packed for taking a commission from British and eased, exported to other places.- merchants in connection with the supply Y.-C. Daily News.
of provisions and other things, and decided
to devote that money to the entertain-
ment of officers and men during the voyage. Becoming acquainted with this I reproached him for his evil doing. The paymaster, in reply, said the commission So I had nothing to do with the cost.
called on the merchants and investigated the matter. The merchants, however, said commission was included in the cost. I lost no time in Dullifying the contract concluded by the paymaster. This is only one of many instances, but bears testi- the mony to the ecrruption existing in Navs. My nullifying the contract caused great indignation among the officers and men during the voyage. They quoted many examples of officers in charge of the bringing out of vessels who had all taken Some of them even ad- commissions. vocated throwing me overboard.
DISCUSSION IN THE DIET,
The question again came up for discussion in the Diet yesterday in the Budget Committee (says the
Japan Times).
Mr. Masanosuka Kato said: Accord- ing to a statement of Paymaster-Captain -Katagiri in a certain newspaper. the payment of commissions seened a custom- ary thing in the Navy, Captain Katagiri says that he was surprised by the lack of discipline at the Kure Naval Arsenal. The licensed quarter scandal, Kyoto University question, and the Canton Forgery Case all show the relaxing of discipline. I desire to know what the Government is going to do with regard to enforcing discipline?
Count Yamamoto: The Government regret that it must hear such questions from Mr. Shimada and Mr. Kato, on the strength of mere newspaper reports Newpapers, foreign or Japanese are not always truthful, Tao authorities will take proper measures to clear up the case, Meanwhile, one ought to be careful not to east wanton suspicion on public men.
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