The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-12
Free Speech For Japanese
 Proclaimed By New Cabinet
Dissolve Navel AiF-FIeet Head Quarters; Abolish Fortified Zones
BY RALPH TRAT8ORTW

(UnIted Press staff CcrEsspondsasA
 Tokyo, oct. 12.-(uP) The new Japanese cabiuep abolished all restrictions on freedom of speech and az sembly today and 'conpleteo the dissolution of home naval and air fleet heaes quarters in compliance with American directives.
 Free speech and free as- sembly were restored tO th0 Japanese people through re- peal of the so-called peace preservation laws. The cabis net also abolished laws sets ting up fortified zones with~ in the home islands.
 Restoration of the rights of speech and assembly were among the orders iBs sued by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur to the Tigashi-Ku cabinet last month and re- iterated by him to the new premier, Baron Kijuro shl- dehara, at.a personal cczl@ ference yesterday.
 The Japanese naval ministry reported to MacArtalir's heads quarters that headquarters C the Japanese combined naval 2ozUeNs the combined fleet and the glftla Air Fleet had been abolished in compliance with another q hi4 dirootlves.
 The ministry said the oveEssaa fleet will maintain its present st4= tuS temporarily insure oFdgN within their forces.
 The cabinet ct It's meeting tos day also aboliShed the council aog up by the Higashi-kuni eOveExl@ ment to investigate revision ck NlH Japanese Diet system, The cahln45 as c whole will assume the ta1M under ehidehafa.
 It also trimmed another ols9N 3e0,O00 from the original bu46Na estimate on railways and 28 olll4H extraordinary accounts. Altos gether, the present and past HeVN eFnments have aiashed o106 0G0 I42 from estimates for the current &'N eel year because cf Japanfa SITS render, @
 Feed Shortage
 The government asked MaeAge thurs heAdauaFteEs fer psEMftge sion to convert two naval azF4 dromss into pits for the pK0aaos ton Of salt, among the eiloFy faoa items in Japan. The aiFdroaao~ are ct Yokosula and okeya-uun in Fukuoka province.
 It aiSo asked that aiaipg bringing repatriated troops from four clll~ nese and Korean ports De permits ted to load 2l0.O0O tons 0f sedb there for ballast,
 The newspaper Asahi said ctiaeN serious food shortages also were confronting the government. xt ess tiFnated that the Japanese Flep crop might fail to i0,0O0. 900 bnells eiS compared with the ali-tiul9 previous low Of iO,2oo,0oO busasig last year.
 Asahi said the Japanese slaeula have ct least i2,e00, 600 husllele for mere subsistence. The crop previously had been estimated at 100000 bushels, but typhoezsv and rains cut this by % Der oezst.
 Rains also damaged the sweet potato crop, on which the governs inent had been depending ag ' substitute for rice. The national agricultural society estimated flaat the Japanese people viii be forced to exist on c daily diet Of only keV to 1900 caioEieS per capita. 1t said iaboFeFS normally require S,00O cai% cries day and other peEnokD should have 2,A00.
 Kenji Kodama, chief of the eovs O'nment uaison bureau for eoP operation with MacAFthug's heao- quarters told the United pEeas that the government plans Co ask permission to import rice azlH other foodStuffS from xudO-C Chfna. Korea, Forinosa and Siam.
 Detailed plans covering methods of payment and transportatlon ase being worked out, he said;
 Chozaburo Mizutani, one ok tiss sponsors of the new Japanese @or ciaiist party, said in radio brOads cast to the nation that the party stood for democracy politically, socialism economically, and pacis figm internationally" W
 He said the party would seek % have the Japanese c0nstitutlen rewritten and a new Diet that acS tualiy represents the people ess