Tokyo, July 12, The Prime Minister, Prince Ko-, nove, invited about 70 representa. tives'of the political parties, financial circles and the press to see him last night, and explained the Govtrnment's North China policy.
The representatives pledged their yuited support of the Government's policy.
The Prime Minister described the circumstances which had forced the Government to make its "grave de~ cision," although, he said, it had not abandoned hope of peaceful negotia~ tons.
"The present incident," he continued, is the natural outcome, of the antl<Japanese agitation dnd education s0 laboriously and tenaciously maintained by the Chinese authorites for many years."
"The despatch of troops from Manchoukuo, 'Korea and Japan Proper to North China,.he added, was me tended primarily "lo urge' China to reconsider her attitude After the meeting, at which all the members of the Cabinet were present, the Minseito and Seiyukai p ties issued a statement pledging their 21 Asylum Inmates Burnt to Death in Japan Hiroshima, July 6.
Twenty-one of 26 inmates of a private hospital for mental dis~ eases here met with a dreadful @eath in the early hours of this morning when afte razed the Building to the ground.
The victims were all burnt to death when they were trapped Ju their rooms, the windows of which were barred with iron support of the Government's policy. The minority parties also followed sat, 'The Minister of Finance, Mr, Kaya, announced to-day that the Govern ment was determined to maintain the present rate of exchange, name-Is. 24, to one yen, despite. the North' China Incident, "He asked ankers and financiers to ce-operate to this
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