POLITICAL STRIFE IN JAPAN

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 58, 9 March 1911, Page 2

POLITICAL STRIFE IN JAPAN

Th<? impeachment of the Marquis Katsuma's Cabinet was demanded in the Diet recently by the Constitutional National Party, which introduced a resolution, declaring that Ministers were responsible for the growth of anarchy in Japan. The party further charges the Cabinet

with having caused among the people i sertous^hism.gro^ing.out.of^he new school text-book which practcallv attacksthe rights of the. Mikado to occupy the throne. Great excitement prevails throughout tho country, and the bitterness. that.Jws been engendered will, it is feared, bring about serious consequences. The impeachment of the"€alunet was vorted only by a narrow majority,,. At thf last minute the Ministry saved,i*sel£..by. joining forces with the SeTvU-Kai, arid tntis securing a bare S^rit£'"-FeMiKll--l«fc a demonstrition might be^ made, against £ the, Government ordered the House to be cleared during the debate.

A. DOCTOR'Si'DISCOVERY. * Dr Schater, a graduate of St.. Mary's College, Oakland, and of the <Bellevue Medical College, -vrhc .has devoted the past few years to clmical research, claims teve zdhiejed results- m-the •ment of different diseases. The doctor declares that he has treated m o fewer than 3500 cases of pneumonia, typhoid,,!,tuberculosis, and ■ /treptQf coccic and staphylococcio infections, with vaccines of his own preparation, and that many remarkable cures were effected within a few hours, of the flrsiT"ln^culatK)n^ , , .

SALE OF CHINESE GIRLS. One of the most distressing features of the groat famine in China a.said to have been, the enormous traffic in Jrirls. The authorities estimate that upwards of 1,000,000 girls have been sold in those districts in which the greatest suffering has resulted[from the famine. Slave dealers nocked to thY rtricken districts and carried on a tremendous traffic, as lew parents had the fortitude to refuse food in exchange for their daughters.