JAPANESE POLITICAL CRISIS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13647, 12 February 1913, Page 5

JAPANESE POLITICAL CRISIS.

UNPOPULARITY OF THE GOVERN-

M.ENT,

DIET SITTINGS SUSPENDED. •

RIOTING IN TOKIO

(Received Fob. 12, 0.15 a.m.)

Tokio, Fob. 11

The Mikado, in a rescript,.has ordered , Marquis Saionjj totry and allevia cc the situation iv the1 direction of.. the abandonment of the censure of tflie G >•>.

eminent. Two members of the late Cabinet are in favour of compliance, but the others are- unwilling to compromise.

A crowd surrounded the Diet aiicl cheered the arrival of the Oppositionists wearing white roses, and hooted the Ministerialists.

The police m-ado repeated charges, fifteen1, being injured.

A rescript has been issued suspeiifir ing the sitting of the- Diet for three days. .. '■ ; ' ..r ■■',■■....-. : ''.'.•... ■' .

Dense crowds assembled, and the

police being unable to cope with thim, the military were summoned. Stono throwing occurred, and a renewed melee followed.

The rioters attacked; tJi© newspaper offices,, and the staffs replied with? revolvers, a frioter being killed. ; The mob looted the oil shops,' s©ated straw, and threw it into the newspapo* offices, which are now guarded.

The military charged with swo^s, and the mob was scattered. Sections rioted, further afield, burning tramcars and wrecking police stations.'

An armed force protected Prin»-o Katsura's residence. ~