Tokyo, Aug. 8.
The "Seventy-First. special session of the Diet was formally concluded this morning, with the reading of an Imperial Rescript by the Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota.
Emperor Hirohito did not attend the ceremony, which was held in the House of Peers, Convoked on July 25, in a warlike atmosphere, the Diet devoted a tajer portion of its attention to bills appropriating funds needed in connection with the North China incident.
Of the 35 measures submitted by the Government, only one,—providing for reforms in the jury sys failed, of passage,
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