FIGHT IN HOTEL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 79, 13 January 1945, Page 4

FIGHT IN HOTEL.

JAPANESE DIPLOMATS. SCENE AT NEW YEAR PARTY. /> LONDON, Jan. 4. A thousand guests in full evening dress at a New Year’s Eve party at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm (Sweden) were astonished to see eight little yellow men being dragged bodily through the crowded foyer by the restaurant staff just as midnight'was striking. The Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily News” says: “There were six Japanese diplomats, headed by the Attache, and two Japanese newspaper correspondents. They wero hissing, spluttering, kicking, shouting, and using ju-jitsu against the Grand Hotel chuckers-out.| A great commotion was caused before order was restored, “All eight Japanese had got roaring drunk, and, in their cups, fell out about the war situation. Several of them had just come from Berlin, and maintained that all was lost. The others, who had been in Stockholm, for years, accused their colleagues of being defeatists. A furious fight resulted. Tables were overturned, and wines were spilled over the dresses of women near by. _ ■ “An inquiry is being held. Tt is understood that the Japanese Attache has suffered such loss of face that lie has been recommended to commit harakiri. It is expected that the others involved will be recalled,”