NATIONAL MOVEMENT AGAINST PEACE.

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

NATIONAL MOVEMENT AGAINST PEACE.

MINISTRY CALLED ON TO RESIGN. NEWSPAPER OFFICE WRECKED. (Received Septembor 9, 7.34 a.mi) TOKIO, Bth September. Troops prevented a determined attempt to destroy the private residence of Count Katsura, the Prime Minister. Prominent popular leaders met, and resolved to organise a national movement from Hokkaido to Formosa and memorialise the Throne not to ratify the Peace Treaty. The newspapers call on the Ministry to resign. A mob attacked the office of the Kokumur, the only newspaper which is supporting the Government, and destroyed tho machinery despite the staff's brave re-istance. EIGHT HUNDRED ARRESTS. CONVERTED INTO A ST. PETERSBURG. (Received September 9, 8.26 a.m.) TOKIO, Bth September. Eight hundred arrests have been mado at Tokio. Matters at the capital are now quieter. The nswspapers condemn the authorities for closing the Park, and for attempting to suppress free speech. The newspaper Hochi Shimbun declares that Tokio has been converted into a St. Petersburg, and urges the Mikado not to ratify the treaty. The Niroku journal has been suppressed. Rioters at Cheba, eastwards of Tokio, burnt the Prefecture and police station A POLITICIAN'S VIEWS. "FURTHER CONFLICT USELESS." TOKIO, Bth Septembor. The Marquis Saionji, leader of the principal party at Tokio, states that the object of the war is attained, rendering further conflict useless. It was, he adds, impossible) to obtain an indemnity, and Japan was not warranted in disregarding the world's desire for peace merely for pecuniary motives. The Marquis says the people will calmly devote themselves to the development of their resources.