DRAWN SWORDS

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18095, 10 June 1924, Page 7

DRAWN SWORDS

IN JAPANESE BALLROOM. FOREIGN LADIES LEAVE HURRIEDLY. , (ET CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION COmMHT.) (AUBTSAUAH ASS *.£. CABLE AMOCUSOQSh) . TOKYO, June 8. '' A demonstration, Which brought-tadfa-t.? American feeling home to the foreigii community, occurred at the a of the usual Saturday night dan£fl:at" the Imperial Hotel, thenerve cetttre of , / foreign and Japanese social contacts ' A band of 30 Japanese invaded tW' i ballroom, delivered menacing Bp urging the boycott of American deportation of Americans from,' ?A aid a rising against foreigners. The speeches were punctuated dances with drawn swords as an '|§fi companiment to the proceedings, WMfe&M were so menacing that of whom there were about 60, riedly left. ' * , 4 p|l A collision between th# awn , the intruders was .threatened .nntii: sober Japanese prevailed, oxy ter to withdraw. r Police were present, but'did terfere. The American Chargl members of the Embassy among the witnesses. ">" A PARTY • AGAINST CARELESS TOKYO,. Representatives of th.® Party, which is composed of political reactionaries, the demonstration at the Hotel was part of their and wtis <diracted» not iplni foreigners, t but against tie : present, who country is faoed' irith it The party ifattnfo •to \pars^^^Eßß| movement tuitil -it» alinß Buddhist priests , dqtfril: 4 ; three days will itt' in Tokyo th© Mr afetsoi, Foreign been created a iwmber ;«£'