JAPANESE RESENTMENT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16450, 6 June 1924, Page 5

JAPANESE RESENTMENT.

FIVE SUICIDES.

PROTESTS AGAINST AMERICAN

EXCLUSION

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) TOKIO, Jiune 4.

The wave of harakiri in protest against, the Americlan exclusion of Japanese has claimed three more victims, whose deaths have aggravated popular resentment against this United States. One youth, twenty years old, threw himself before a train 'and was ground to pieces neap Chiba.. He left a wall urging] his countrymen to boycott American goods. An elderly man took poison and a merchant at Homamatsu, recently returned from the United States, committed harakiri, each leaving, a statement, protesting against the exclusion. Officials of the police deplore the fatalities, which now total five, but declare themselves povveriess to prevent the spread of suicide, since it is a matter for the individiial soul and is not amenable to regulation. (Reuter's Teiegram.) (Received June 6, noon.) TOKIO, June 3.

A monster protest meeting to-day, including representatives of every official party in the Lower House, adopted a resolution that every step be taken to maintain the Japanese position against America's anti-Japanese Immigration Bill. The demonstration, was marked by strong feeling. The promoters intend to organise a campaign throughout the nation with the.view of impressing upon people the gravity of the situation.