CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 61, 9 September 1905, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

[BY • 3MJOTBIO TELEGRAPH. — CQPTRKHT.] » ANTI-PEACE RIOTS." • DISTURBANCES IN JAPAN; OYAMA URGED TO CONTINUE THE FIGHT. COLLISIONS WITH THE POLICE. PUBLIC BUILDINGS DESTROYED. [PEESS ASSOCIATION.] TOKIO, Bth September. The anti-peace riotiug began on Tuesday last. The principal origin of the trouble was the lefusal of the Government to reveal the full terms of the Peace Treaty, and prohibiting the right of public meeting. Owing to the arrest of five leaders of public opinion, a hundred thousand people desired to hold an indignation meeting. Members of the Hibiya party and police barricaded the gates and tried to disperse the mob, but the latter emashed the barriers. An orderly meeting was then held. It \vas resolved to telegraph Marshal Oyama, urging him to continue the fight — not to accept a shameful peace. It was also decided to urge the Mikado not to ratify tho Portsmouth treaty. After the meeting rowdies, supposed to bo in the pay ot agitators, surrounded the Ministry of the Interior, where the Premier, Count Katsura, and the Chief of Police were believed to be. The mob threw dust in the eyes of the police and tried to force an entrance. Five persons entered the hall. An officer killed the foremost, and disarmed and arrested the rest. The polico then charged the crowd, wounding many, and also suffering themselves. The mob tried for hours to force an entrance. After dusk they set fire to the outer buildings of the Ministry of the Interior/ stoning the firemen who tried to extinguish the flames. The Imperial Guards charged, but used the crowd gently. A mob burned and destroyed ten Christian churches and one mission house at Tokio on Wednesday night. No one was injured. Troops guard tho Legations'. Mobs roughly used some foreigners. The residences of members of the Ministry and of elder statesmen are guarded.