SUFFRAGE IN JAPAN.
GOVERNMENT DENOUNCED. INDIVIDUAL PETITIONS. fßy Cable—Press Association—Copyright-) (Rauter'a Talerrama.j TOKYO. February 25. The Press is practically united in denouncing the Government's actions in bringing in police in connexion with the uproar in the Diet, and especially in issuing visitors' tickets to the Diet gallery to 200 detectives. This act is termed an illegal attempt to coerce the Diet minority. During the past two days 50,000 individual petitions to the Government to grant manhood suffrage have been filed, in the Diet, the petitioners being passed in single file through lines of police to the Diet and out again. Someof the petitions were signed in blood. [The Japanese Diet defeated the Bill to extend the suffrage by 288 votes to 159. Mr Shozo Sasaki, a membor of the Opposition presented a motion in the Diet demanding the impeachment of the Ministry for alleged unconstitutional and illegal actions resulting in the arrests at Thursday's demonstration. Ho asked the Speaker to leave the chair. The Spcaknr ordered Mr Sasaki to leave the Chamber. Uproar followed, and fists were shaken. Hundreds of police were brought from nearby towns in anticipation of further trouble on the part of the crowds.] i
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17391, 28 February 1922, Page 7
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