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THE FAR EAST.
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JAPANESE BUDGET.
LARGE SUMS FOR AMAMENSTS.
Tokio, Dec. 1.
The Japanese Cabinet has approved of
the Budget for 1921.1922 totalling 1,562,.
000,000 yen, whereof 738,000,000 yen ara
for armaments. The Navy budget is
498,000,000 yen, whereof 144,000,000 yen are
for new construction.
JAPAN AND AMERICA.
New York, Dec. i
The Washington correspondent of the
United Press Association state- that ayv
pioposal to settle the Japanese qucstiuis
by means of a treaty will encounter op
pnoition in the Senate. It is understos I
that the Foreign Relations Committee of
that body has assumed this attitude on the
ground that iminigrstior and the rights of
the Japanese in the United States are not
proper subjects fpr a treaty. They aver
that the United States will not make con
cessions to Japan as long as Japan holds
the Marshall and Ladrone Islands, and
that a treaty would prove no more effte
tive than the so-called "Gentlemen's agree
ment."
FLIGHT OF SEMENOFF.
Tokio, Dec. 1.
General Semenoff, the Cossack leader,
has arrived at Vladivostok from Siber.:,
under a Japanese escort, and has boarded
a Japanese transport.
[A Tokio message of November 22
stated.:-"It is " reported that General
Semenoff, who is being hemmed in by the
Mongols and Bolsheviks near Manchuria,
is facing a critical situation. It is as
serted that the Japanese ligh eomnand
broke faith with Semenoff and is generally
pursuing a policy of stirring up Siberia
and preventing the creation of a buffer
State between Soviet Russia and the far
eastern Republic."]
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