TOKIO CRIME WAVE.
Fifty Murders in a Month. RIOT AT UNIVERSITY. KOBE, December 3. The November ceremonies came to a climax with the police extremely nervous. Searches and arrests are prevailing and lose majeste charges numerous. It is now reported that in November there wore fifty nidrders in Tokio and suburbs, besides eight by burglars. There were hundreds of armed burglaries, inanj ft.nd oldict crimes, proportionately, while arrests were few. Political crime, however, still monopolises the attention of the authorities . There w'as serious trouble at the Lokkaido Imperial University, where a thousand students rioted, destroying property, beating officials and D’ofessors, following the President’s reports to the Minister of Education, who reported to the Cabinet that, although ostensibly a protest against, the dismissal of one of the students, the riots were really deep-rooted radicalism among the students.
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Grey River Argus, 11 December 1928, Page 5
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