JAPANESE SHOUT FOR MORE FOOD
Received Alondav 7.25 p.m. TOKIO, May 29. ' A erowd estiinated al 125,000 swarin1 ed towards tlie gates oi Hiroliito 's palace sliouting for mere food and lirainlisliing banners inseribed "Ilmvn witli Vosliida''. A delegation from tlie iiuiust rial organisation was subsequentlv allowed to enter tlie iuner palace grounds wliere lliey left for Hiroliito a petition protesting against tlie food shortage and a sixteen point resolution calliiig for tlie immediate distribution of delayed riee, tlie renewal of food doles for scliool cliildren, tlie jniblic control of food alloeated tiy Fnited States Arniv, and tlie formatioii of a democratie front to replace "tlie reaetionary Cabinet". Tliere was no iinniedilate respouse from tlie Kni|ieror but' tlie Tokio .Metropolitan Government later lannounced measures for tlie immediate irelcase of 20,000 bags of rice from iGoveriimeiit stocks.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 May 1946, Page 5
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