JAPANESE ANGRY

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1037, 9 June 1924, Page 5

JAPANESE ANGRY

ANTI-AMERICAN FEELING.

DEMONSTRATION IN TOKIO.

By Electric Teleqraph.—Copyright.' Received June 9, 9.55 a.m. TOKIO, June 8.

A demonstration which brought the antiAmerican feeling home to the foreign community was the break up of y tho usual Saturday night dance at tlie Imperial Hotel, <ho nerve centre of tho foreign Japanese social contact. A band of 30 Japanese invaded the ballroom and delivered menacing speeches, urging a boycott of American goods, the deportation in tho future of Americans from Japan and a rising against foreigners. The speeches were punctuated by dances with drawn swords as an accompaniment. Tho proceedings became so menacing that the foreign ladies, of whom about 50 wero present, hurriedly left. A collision between tho men and the intruders was threatened until the more sober Japanese prevailed on the latter to withdraw. The police present did not interfere.. Tho American Charge de Affairs and members of tho Embassy staff were among the witnesses. —A. and'N.Z. cable. DEMONSTRATION EXPLAINED. Received June 9, 12.10 p.m. TOKIO, June 8. Representatives of the Taikosha Party, which is composed of the extreme political reactionaries, declare that the deruwistration at the Imperial Hotel was part of their programme, directed not against foreigners, but against the Japanese present who seek pleasure while the country is faced with u grave crisis. The party intends to persist in the movement until its aims are realised. Buddhist priests during the next three days will conduct a campaign in Tokio against the migration laws.— Reuter. LEAVING FOR AMERICA. TOKIO, June 6.

The ordinary shipping services not sufficing for the transportation of the large numbers of Japanese wishing to return to America before July Ist, when the new Immigration Act is being enforced, an arrangement has been made between the Government and the shippers by which three additional steamers will be sailing to America immediately.—A. and N.Z. cable.