9th September.
The growing indignation at the extraordinary peace terms has at last come to. head, thanks to the indiscretion of the police; and thanks again to them the result is that, at a conservative estimate, 100 people have been killed and four times that number wounded, while more than three hundred are under arrest.
The surrender at Portsmouth was the cause, but the refusal of the police to allow Hibiys Pork to be used for a perfectly peaceful meeting was the occasion, of the riots. Early on the morning of Tuesday, the 5th, the police informed the ty called the Kawa Doshikai, under whose auspices the meeting was. called, that the meeting could not take plac This was a gross broach of privilege, as the park is Municipal property, and Mayor Ozaki promptly lodged a protest. This protest was disregarded, and at 11 a.m. the police proceeded to barricade all the gates of Hibiya Park. At noon, however, the committee of the Kawa Doshikai (Anti-Peace Association) arrived fon the scene. The logs that blocked the gates were torn down, and the assembled mob, with loud banzais, poured into the park, despite the efforts of about 350 police, and began to let off fireworks honour of their victory, the police ding by in ominous silence and ceasing for the moment from active op-
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