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Show SPEEDING UP THE I OUTPUT OF SHELLS I Japanese Statesmen Confer on Plans to Aid the jjl Russians him! ORDERS SENT FACTORIES . - lii Rushing the Production of jjjn lyiunitions in All Plants in Japan. H Tokio. Aug. 24. Premier Okuma Hfljl and Minister of War -Oka have paid lsj! a visft to Nikko to report to the em- mil peror their plans for Increasing the ifitjjt supply of ammunitions, in accordance jUJjl employ all available resources, both 1 governmental and private, for swell- l j lng the nation's output in aid of Ja- jjjl pan's allies in the war. Afterwards nHJI the premier and war minister con- 'MJ ferred at length with, the ambassadors llsi of the allied powers. fil(' Orders have been dispatched to the iji foundries and factories of the empire Vs that are engaged In the production oi JS munitions to rush their work. Ht. |