AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 10 June 1924, Page 7

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

TENSION IN TOKIO.

MENACING SPEECHES BY

JAPANESE.

By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. TOKIO, June 8.

A demonstration which brought the anti-American leeling home to the foreign comunity, was the break up of the usual Saturday night dance at the Imperial Hotel, the nerve cent-re of the Foreign Social Contact Band. The Japaneso- invaded the ballroom and delivered menacing speeches, urging a boycott of American goods and the deportation of future Americans from Japan and a rising against foreigners. The speeches were punctuated by dances with drawn swords, as an accompaniment. The proceedings wei’e so menacing foreign ladies, of whom about 50 hurriedly left. Collision between the foreigners and intruders threatened until the more sober Japanese prevailed on the latter, Who withdrew. The police were present, but did not interfere. The American Charge d’Affaires, members of the Embassy, and the Staff were among the witnesses. TOKIO, June 8. The representatives of the Taikosln Party, which is composed of extreme political reactionaries, declare that the demonstration at the Imperial Hotel was part of their programme, directed not against fhe foreigners, hut against the Japanese present, “who seek pleasures while the country is faced with a 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' law.