The Archive · 1940

Preparations Complete

Preparations for the Diet session were completed this morning at an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet and a conference this afternoon of Parliamentary Vice-Ministers and 2,800 Hands Resume The labour situation in Shanghai had returned to a nearly normal and with settling in British-owned Members of*th= House of Peers total Ye ce Tebomg 415 persons. There are 448 seats ti the House of Representatives of which 18 are vacant.

Political parties hold the following seats in the House of Representatives: Minseito, 174; Seiyukai, Reformist Faction, 97; Seiyukai, Orthodox Faction, Ti; Social Mass Party, 34; Jikyoku Doshikai, 32; First Club, 22; Seiyukai, Unification Faction, 11, and Independents, 7.—Domei.

Road, returned to their jobs yesterday morning, while on Tuesday the strike at the Textile Ci Mokanshan Road, had been settled. The latter establishment also employs about 1,400 hands.

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

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