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...money demanded by the fighting services and nastily adjourning the Diet before worse should befall. The Opposition (Minseito) Party, not daring to oppose, wailed a public prediction through the lips of Deputy Gotaro Ogawa that Japan's occupation of Manchuria will soon have cost 300,000,000 yen ($100,000,000 current rate)?a vast sum for Japan...
...police thought, had taken a bribe of 100,000 yen ($50,000 at par) to keep quiet about an evasion of taxes by Meiji Sugar Co. amounting to 10,000,000 ($5,000,000). This evasion was accomplished by bribes, after which the blackmailing began. In all Meiji Sugar Co. was said to have been "squeezed" for 1,600,000 yen...
...given as 74,000 sq. mi. In point of fact, the area of Manchuria alone is 383,000 sq. mi. On the second page, the total investment of Japan in its "railway, shipping, mining, forestry, steel manufacture, agriculture, and cattle raising" enterprises in Manchuria is placed at 440 million yen. This figure, however, represents only the capitalization of the South Manchuria Railway Company; Japan's total investment in Manchuria, including the additional enterprises specified in the sentence quoted, amounts to nearly two billion yen. On the third page, Prince Yamagata is stated to have participated in a conference called...
...best they could last week the Privy Council, headed by Baron Hiranuma, stood against Japan's militarists who were succeeding at Shanghai (see p. 24). The Council forced Premier Inukai to cut down a Japanese internal bond issue now about to be floated from 28,000,000 yen to 22,000,000 yen ($7,315,000). This money, unquestionably, will be spent to pay some of Japan's fight bills. Whom will she fight next, if anyone...
...Hoover was not a defendant in the case of Chang Yen-mao v. Moreing and others (London, 1905). As Moreing's agent, he had signed disputed agreements covering the transfer of Chinese mines to an English syndicate. According to Justice Joyce, Agent Hoover "went so far as to use various threats" to Chang and "took possession of some of the title deeds of the property by main force." Justice Joyce's innuendo: "It has not been shown to me that his Excellency Chang has been guilty of any breach of faith or of any impropriety at all, which...