RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8241, 9 September 1905, Page 5

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Continued Rioting in Tokio

(Received Last Night, at 9.30 p.m.)

Tokio, Yesterday.

Rioting began here on September sth, because the Government refused to reveal the full peace terms, and prohibited the right of the public meeting in the Hibiya. Owing to the extreme unpopularity of the police, the Imperial Guards protected the Government buildings. Two hundred police were among the wounded. Four rioters were killed and two hundred arrested. The police wounded fourteen mortally with swords. Demonstrators hope to induce the Government not to ratify the treaty. The abandonment of the indemnity is the chief cause of dissatisfaction. The disorders were resumed on the night of September 7th. Martial law has been decreed. {Received This Morning, at 12.22 a.m.) Tokio, Last Night. A subsequent meeting of rowdies, supposed to be in the pay of agitators, surrounded the Ministry of the Interior, where Baron Katsura and the Chief of tlie Police were believed to be. The mob threw dust in the eyes of the police, and tried to force an entrance. Five entered the hall but an officer killed the foremost, and disarmed and arrested the rest. The police then charged, wounding many, but also suffering themselves. The mob tried for hours to force an entrance, and after dusk set fire to the outer buildings of the Ministry of the Interior, stoning a fireman, who tried to extinguish the fire. The Imperial Guards then charged, using the crowd gently. Marquis Saionji, the leader of the principal political party in Tokio, states that the object of the war having been attained further eonlliet was useless. It was impossible to obtain an indemnity, and Japan was not warranted in disregarding the world's desire for peace merely from pecuniary motive--. Let the people calmly devote them selves to developing the resources of the country. The mob burned and destroyed ten Christian churches, and a Mission house at Tokio on Wednesday night. No one was injured. The mob roughly used some foreigners' residences. Owing to the arrest of liw leaders of public opinion, a crowd, a hundred thousand strong, desired to hold an indignation meeting in the Hibiya. The police barricaded the gates and tried to disperse them, but the mob smashed the barriers and held an orderly meeting. They decided to telegraph to Field-Marshal Oyaraa, urging him to continue to light and not to accept a shameful peace. The meeting also decided to urge the Mikado not to ratify the treaty.