The Archive · 1939

Began by the People

Tokyo, July 22.

Following a special Cabinet session today, Baron Hiranuma, according to well-informed circles, asked the Minister of the Interior, Marquis Koichi Kido, about the anti-British movement now in progress in Japan.

The well-informed circles referred to state that the movement that "began among the people and is carried on by the people" will not be affected by the result of the Anglo-Japanese conference. Just as little direct effect on the blockade of Tien-isin was to be expected from the result of the conference. Whether the blockade continues or "terminates depends exclusively "on detailed negotiations to take place in Tokyo next week between the two Govern-

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