strongly Attacked Tokio, Jan. 24.
The House of Peers was packed to-day to hear Viscount Kato, former Ambassador to London, make his first speech in the House, where he has been sitting for years but has hitherto been silent. Viscount Kato is regarded as a leading exponent, almost a ''worshipper," of Anglo-Saxon political ideals, and being powerful as the President of the Kenseikai. the leading opposition party, his speech was regarded with intense interest.
After criticizing the Government's lack of continuity in international dealings and the failure of its economic policy, Viscount Kato declared that Japan should} have withdrawn from Siberia' with America. Japan, by remaining in Siberia, and giving shifting ex-enses, was arousing charges that she entertained militaristic ambitions. When the Czechs had been evacuated, the Government had declared that it must maintain order, but why, he asked, maintain order in foreign territory? The Government, talked of the menace of Bolshevism, especially to Korea,
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