Opposition Inspired Demonstrations Against Government Tokyo, Oct, 20.
Desiring the downfall of the Cabinet before the Diet assembles in December, opposition attacks are becoming' increasingly vehement. The latest indication occurred yester-_ day night when, under the guise of patriotism, 20,006 persons attended 'a mass meeting at Shiba Park at which members of the opposition Joined the reactionaries in denounce ing the Government regarding the so-called "Bokuretsu case," in which the Department of Justice is accused of showing too much leniency ing the Korean, Bokuretsu, and his wife to see each other after] jay the Prines Regent had rescinded the death sentence on the man some months ago.
A riot was narrowly averted when the crowd clashed with the police, throwing bottles and gli resulting in several minor casualties and 30 arrests.
"At present the main weapon of attack concerns a photograph which Judge Tatematsu permitted to be taken last year showing the Korean t, Bokuretsu, with his wite resigned but the opposition parties with the support of the reactionaries, maintain, firstly, that the photograph shows that' the authori-_ ties permitted unusual privileges to Bokuretsu in allowing his wife to share his cell, and secondly, that the Government ' wrongfully ' obtained Imperial clemency, whereby the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
Though these charges are seemingly trivial, nevertheless the opition's virulent attacks are undoubtedly embarrassing the Government, which is now also threatened a possibility of the Kenyiuk the most powerful party in the Upper House, withdrawing its support, thereby' wrecking the Cabinet isters belong to the vi In order to avert this catastrophe the Government is doing all possible to placate the Kenyiukai, even dismissing Mr. Aoki, the Vice-Minister of Railways, who is unpopular with the party—Reuter.
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