FEELING IN JAPAN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 10 June 1924, Page 5

FEELING IN JAPAN.

MENACING DEMONSTRATION.

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT TOKIO, June 8. * A demonstration which brought the anti-American feeling home to the foreign community was the break-up of the usual Saturday night dance at the Imperial Hotel, the nerve centre of foreign Japanese social contact. A band of thirty Japanese invaded the ballroom and delivered, menacing speeches, urging a boycott of American goods, the deportation in future of Americans from Japan, and a rising against foreigners. The speeches were punctuated by a dance with drawn swords as an accompaniment. The proceedings were so menacing that foreign ladies, of whom there were about fifty, hurriedly left. A collision between the men and the intruders threatened until the more sober Japanese prevailed on the latter to withdraw. '33ie police present did no* interfere. Tie American Charge d'Affaires, and members of the Embassy and staff wen© among the wit-nesses.'—Aus.-2*.Z. Cable Assn.