AFFRAY AT TOKIO
BRAZILIAN ENVOY’S ACT PUBLIC LASHED INTO FURY TOKIO, Jan .12. The affray in which the Brazilian Ambassador to Japan. Settor Cliermont, figured in 'lokio mi Friday, when he fought with the police who sought to prevent him from crossing a street which had been cleared for the passage of the l’tinee Regent, is embarrassing the Foreign OlHce. Its officials are hourly berated h.v members of reactionary societies for their failure to adequately resent the ‘‘insult to the Imperial House. The Black Dragon Society lias presented a demand that the Embassy and the envoy should immediately leave Japan, wiiere. th p society says, it has shown itself unfit to stay. The police, dm- and night. guard the Embassy which the envoy does not- leave. The bodyguards attending the Prime Minister. Viscount Kato, and Ministers, have also been increased, as the press is lashing the public into fuvv endeavouring to make political capital out of the incident.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 21 January 1926, Page 4
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158AFFRAY AT TOKIO Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 21 January 1926, Page 4
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