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JAPAN ,«!
WAVE OF
VIOLENCE AND
UNREST
TOKIO, Friday — Premier
Yoshlda is- prepared to proclaim
a state' of. emergency if necessary
to halt violence- and unrest In
Japan - -
Yoshlda announced this today
as police -intensified their search
danori Shlmayama, chairman of
the.' Statei Railway Corporation,
whose decapitated body was found
on v railway tracks near Toklci
this '.week, just before 30,000 rail
way-workers were discharged for
economy reasons.. - .
' Police' still ; have not announc
ed whether he was murdered or
committed 'suicide by jumylng
under.. a1- train, '..but' the Premier
hinted that ? Communists , were
behind Shlmcyama's death and
other;, recent labor violence
throughout/the. country. ?
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