OVERWHELMING DEFEAT.
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. By Telegraph—Pres* Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. TOKIO. May 12. The latest returns show that the Kenseikai Party have 142 seats, the Seiyukai SO, the Seiyuhonto 102, the Kakushi’n 29 and the Independents 63 There remain thirty-nine seats yet uncertain, but it is believed that the Kenseikai will win the greater number of these, and the anti-Governmer.t parties are certain to have an overwhelming majority. This is the most crushing defeat received by any Cabinet during the past quarter of a century. M. Rentaro Mizuno (Minister of Home Affairs) is urging Viscount Kiyoura to remain in office. He conferred with Marquis Saionji, the elder statesman, and is understood to have asked him to approve of another lissolution of the Diet. It is not believed, lion ever, that the venerable leader will countenance such a step m the face of the avowed unpopularity of the Kiyoura Cabinet.
The Kensekai are already preparing prospective Cabinet lists. Viscount T <ato is considered to be the most likely aspirant to the Premiership.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17349, 14 May 1924, Page 10
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