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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 1ári, 1991.
JAPAN'S ARMY ESTIMATES, WAR OFFICE BUDGET TOTALS
FEN 200,000,000.
The Japanese War Department has prepared ita budget for the army for the fiscal year 1922-23 in line with the world wide desire for a reduction in the suma to be spent for military enterprises. The budget estimates call for an expenditure Y.200,000,000. The appropriation made for the army by the last session of the Diet was Y.203,144,702, the economy a now estimated totalling Y.3,144,702
NEW CONSTITUTION, FOR BURMA.
PROMPT ACTION URGED. The fire constructive report of the Standing Joint Committee on Indian Affairs, of which Lord Islington in chairman, was published, on June 1st, and pronounces upon the controversy to the future institution of Burma,
It will be recalled that Mr. Montagu rejected the revised scheme of the Government of India for system stopping short of the application of "The War Office authorities ATE eager to adjust themselves to the circum dyarchy to the province. In March last stance in which the Empire finds herself Lord Lytton, Under-Secretary, moved through the changes wrought in the the second reading of a Bill to apply world regarding the question of a reduc- the dyarchial system with local modifi. tion of expenses" declares the, Alahi, which has learned from an authoritative cations to Burma; but consideration was source the figures that the estimate em postponed until further papers were bodies. The budget was to be sub-published. These were issued early in mitted to the Finance Department on June 30th for its consideration.
"ORDINARY. EXPENSES HIGHER.
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April, and, soon after the whole 'question was referred the Joins Select Com
Of the total estimated allowance,mitted by the Secretary of State...
.. The conclusions of the Committee have Y.198,000,000 is, to go for ordinary ex-
been reached by different routes," but penses and Y.65,500,000 for extraordinary expenses. The ordinary expense Y.11,209,180 more than that allowed for the present year and Y.30,057,588 more than the allowance for the year 1990-91 However, the extraordinary estimates are Y.14,683,871 less than the amount for the present period. The Bird Y.7,319,275 above the extraordinary ex- penses of 1920-31.
The comparisons" follow:-
Ordinary
Extraordinary
Totals
Ordinary Extraordinary.
Totals
Ordinary Extraordinary
Totals
they are at one in recommending that the Government of India Act be applied to Burma, and that the necessary legis lation be passed without delay, as proof of the intentions of Parliament towards Burma and its people. They believe that the "Bill introduced by Lord Lytton is. in_principle, adequate for the purpose.
The committee held that they had not sufficient evidence before them upon which to base recommendations" in res 1929-13.
pect to the division between reserved Estimates.
and transferred subjects and the" form Y.194,000,000 of election which should in every in Y 65,000,000 stance be adopted. They consider that
these are essentially matters to be ex
Y.260,000,000 plored by competent authority on the
1921-22.
spot, and they advise the early appoint Estimates."
ment of a committed, which should in- .Y.163,290,831 clude at least a chairman and one other .Y. 79,553,871
member from Great Britain. This body should be charged with the duty of hold ing an open inquiry into and reporting upon the franchise and electorates, the subjects to be administered by Ministers, 1920-21. and all questions ancillary thereto. A Y.135,042,414
preference is expressed for direct over .Y. 57,450,723 indirect elections in rural areas wher
ever practicable.
.Y263,144,70% 1920-21. Estimates.
.Y.213,422,339
The principal items in the extra-ordi zary expenditure estimates, according to the da, are for replenishment of defences, including the expense of br ganizing additional airplane corpo, the rendjustment of fortresses, the replenish. ment of armament and the like, totalling Y.33,300,000, and Y.10,000,000 extra for the possible siss n prices. The other expense consists of miscellaneous items.
"There are very few new enterprises worth noticing incorporated in the War Office bill, the dahi says, "but there are two or three noteworthy facts an to the plans in connection with the economy to be exercised in the army expenses and with the progrees of aviation in the world.
MUST ESTABLISH ROUTES...
In the absence of full material, the Committee submit no opinion on the often-discussed question of separating Burma, from India. They do not think that if this were subsequently decided upon "it would be more difficult under the dyarchial constitution than that now changes might somewhat diminish the existing. Indeed, they think that these difficulties of separating Burma from India and placing it under another de-! partment in Whitehall,
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NEWSPAPERS SUPPRESSED IN JAPAN.
The Japan Advertiser «printed the following in conspicuous type in its issue of June 25th:
To save readers who have received the Advertiser from hunting through it for something peculiarly spicy or for some add that the offending statement was con- especially dangerous thought" We may
The facta noted are that the time of The Japan Advertiser, in common with the entry of new recruits into the sera number of other papers, was sup- vice is in January, the changes in the pressed yesterday, and, though Tokyo aviation corps, the establishment of and Yokohama subscribers had received International aviation, routes contemtheir papers before the thunderbolt was plated and the abolition of the practice launched from the censor's office in the of allowing officers of the sakwan rank Metropolitan Polica Ofice, readers in (field officers) to maintain horses at their Kobe and the country districts will prob- own expense. By changing the date of ahly be deprived of their papers. the entry of conscripts into the Army Government will save about Y2,000,000.
The 14th session of the Dict approved the plan of adding two corps to the aviation service, the Fifth and the Sixth Corps, in view of the progress of the world in aviation, but steps for such en- largement have not as yet been taken. The present formation of the First, Second and Third Corps consists of two companies each, Such organization lacks unity, and it is now proposed that the formation shall include three companies for each unit.
ined in a Kokusai Reuter telegram from New York printed on Page 10 under the cross-head Renewal is. Expected" and containing a statement which one would he thought could surprise no one who had read the treaty concluded between Great Britain and the Japanese Empire on July 13th, 1011, and freely discussed on many occasions in the intervening tea years, or the speeches made by Mr. Lloyd
In the presont system the life of an George and others in London on June airplane is estimated at six months, but ¦ 20th..
it is considered too dangerous to permit the planes to be used that long. There- fore, it is proposed to reduce the time for each plane to four months. General unity of service throughout is desired, but such proposition would require a consider abio outlay. For instance, one corps will require as much as an army divi- sion, of Y.1,500,000 a year! Such a large expuose is thought too great for the next üscal year.
JAPAN'S NATIONAL ANTHEM.
The words of the Japanese National Anthem (commencing: Kimi
yu way, like the Japanese throne, are of great antiquity. The anthem is taken from the first of two veres specially alluded to by the editor, in his preface to the Kokinshiu, au anthology of poems, an The plan for the establishment of cient and modern, collect by the international aviation routes must be order of the Emperor Daigo in A.D. carried out regardless of cost, declares 020.
the paper,
in order to maintain theThe editor meations the anei at poem dignity of the Empire among the nations as a sample of a certain class of subjects of the world. The plan will be incor need by poets they wished prosperity porated in the budget for next year. to there for using the metaphor of About Y.10,000,000 is estimated as the cost of all aviation enterprises, “..
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TO SUPPLY HORSES.
Because of the expenses of living it is proposed to supply Government horses. to all sakwan officers. There are now 2,000 horses throughout the country owned by sakwan for their own use. At. the rate of Y500 ahead these horses will cost the Government Y1,250,000. The ex- pense of keeping the stables
to be pro... 'vided by the Government also.
pebbles," The verse included in the collections, runs (Astar's translation):--
May our lord
Live for a thousand ages
Until the pebbles.
Become a rocky
Overgrown with moss!
THE WRONG WAY TO READ.
The War Office estimates are with- If you have to hold the pipiul too far away to out peculiarity for the next year, na
shown by the foregoing description. No see dearly. the eye wil be strained to make out great new enterprise-is noted-on-account
of the relations with finance. The Wat the fine p int. If you have to hold thy prist, Office authorities are cager to adjust to close that will strain the muscles of the cen themselves to the circumstances in which
the Empire finds herself through the Either way in bad. When you cannot read any changes wrought in the world regarding fine tyre bld at prop r distance-ay 14inchen the question of a reduction of the ex
penses. The old "committee of inves-from your eye, have your eyes examined by the tigation of the military system will be
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The War Ofice expects to introduce the satisfaction of using a pair of right seeing a thorough retorm in 1921-24.-7äpan Advertiser.
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