Tokyo, Aug. 1.
Asserting that the abrogation of the commercial treaties by Britain and the United States was "the greatest insult" to Japan in history, Њe "Hochi Shimbun," writing under the column "Current Topics." declared that the abrogation was a forthright severance of economic re-kalon, with Japan by Britain and America in an attempt to intimidate and "suffocate" Japan economically.
The paper urged that the J people should calmly, prudent seriously consider what Japan must do to cope with the situation, assert-ug. "The quicker the decision the better the result" pore port aeilitles is a dead without equate trans-country.
Shanghai Aug. 1.
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