Delegation Visits Speaker to Ask for Relief 4 Tokyo, June 6.
Voicing the growing spirit of unrest and dissatisfaction among the agricultural communities, arising' from their keen economic distress, representatives of 120,000 farmers in Northern Japan are threatening to make a direct appeal to the throne for immediate relief.
The delegation this afternoon visited the Speaker of the Lower House, to whom they complained that successive governments had asserted that the matter was under consideration, but that relief had never been forthcoming. For this reason, they said, the patience of the farmers was now exhausted, as their conditions were desperate-—Reuter.
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