Tokyo. July 19.
With Sino-Japanese relations rabidly nearing a crisis, the Tokyo "city fathers" to-day began preparations to declare a state of emergency: in the metropolitan district zt any moment, to safeguard the Capital "against all possible contingencies."
Officials at the War Ministry have been working overtime for the past 48 hours. opening and acknowledging letters of encouragement and containing monetary contributions. Yes: terday, the Ministry received total of Y.6,996.62, mostly in small amounts, Among the contributions was Y.10.75 in small coins, sent by an eight-year-old boy, who wrote "We are grateful to the Army for its service in such hot weather. Another letter, scribbled in blood. contained a reservist's appeal for permission to go to the front lines.
Hundreds. of others are volunteering for service, among them being fourteen members of the Japan Students' Aviation League, who arrived at the Haneda air-port here yesterday to begin a brief period of vigorous training in preparation for mobilization orders.
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