First, after negotiating an agreement with the Governor of Osaka and the chief editor of the newspaper company to stop publishing the article, he sent a telegraph to Iwashita and upon arriving in Osaka he visited the chief editor of the newspaper company to put a stop to the article which ended up being too late as the bank had insufficient funds to satisfy customer withdrawal requests the next day.
まず取り付け騒ぎの原因となっている新聞記事の差し止めを求め大阪府知事や新聞社主宰と交渉し、その間に岩下へ電報を打電、急遽大阪に戻った岩下は自ら新聞社主宰を訪れ、記事停止の了解を得ることはできたが時既に遅く、その翌日には一時引き出しができない事態を生じる。