The Archive · 1937

Navy's Action

Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, Minister of the Navy, this noon obtained the approval of' the Cabinet to his policy of "proceeding with circumspection" in dealing with the dis appearance of a Japanese sailor.

This assent of other ministers was given at an informal meeting of the Cabinet at the official residence of the Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, held after a luncheon given following the opening ceremony of the Fist session of the Diet—Domei. the Japanese Naval Landing Party, which sent out fully-equipped patrols to territory outside of the Internaional Settlement even before they had made any investigations into the incident,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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