UPHEAVAL FEARED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 224, 21 August 1945, Page 5

UPHEAVAL FEARED

JAPAN ON VERGE OF STRIFE. APPEALS TO PEOPLE. (11 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 20. Beaten on the battlefield, economically crippled, and lacking sufficient food lor her people, Japan is on the verge of internal upheaval judging from 'lokio broadcasts. Apparent fear of a public outbreak is voiced continually. Officials and newspapers are appealing to the people to maintain peace and order. The Minister for Justice (Dr Chuzo Iwata) told the Press that the Allied conquerors might take a hand if local authority failed. He warned that Japan in the future would have to face a considerably different position from when she was still powerful militarily and financially because she was now a defeated nation. Sinya fa aka, Tokio’s now chief of police, warned his forces that the post-war maintenance of peace and order would ho drastically different from the wartime positunn Timeg ClYlp h a sised the grave difficulties confronting Cabinet in maintaining general peace and cider. It pointed out that control ol the military presented the 1 remiei (Prince Higashi-Kuni) with an even greater problem. . . . Prince Higashi-Kum, in a nationwide broadcast over the Tokio radio urged the Japanese to maintain strict discipline and the utmost equanimity in the face of the current situation. He added that blood flowing through his veins told him that the Emperors authority was conclusive. Every member of the nation had a responsibility to the Emperor on the basis ol equality. , ~ The Doinci News Agency reports the dcatli of General Haiao Cbuhsuan, former War Minister in the Nanking puppet Government. The cause of his death is not disclosed.