JAPANESE POLITICS
SUFFRAGE QUESTION CAUSES DISORDER. Heater’s Telegram. (Received July 14, 1.30 a.m.) TOKIO, July 13. There were disorderly scenes in the House of Representatives on the introduction of the Universal Suffrage Bill, which was defeated by 286 to 156. A thousand excited students attempted a demonstration, and were dispersed by tho police, three thousand of whom are guarding the Diet. _ Numerous collisions between the police and civilians occurred, and scares of arrests were made.. Many were injured.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10641, 14 July 1920, Page 5
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