i The Japanese police have an easier time than their confreres in Europe. Crime in the land of the chrysanthefcom is 'almost limited to theft and tfrageuies, or serious cases of bodily harm, resulting from street brawls. It is nest to impossible, the chief of the Tokio police says, for a murder to be committed without someone hearing of it at the moment. This is due to the fact that the houses aro composed of paper, and bamboo, so any noise in a -House- occasioned by robbers or aasasAiDs would not'fail to attract the at.r;«Jntioii of neighbours. f x
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9918, 5 August 1910, Page 3
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