Tokyo, May 1.
Thanks to the fact that most-of the extremists in the city had been. rounded up in the past few weeks, May Day passed off quietly, though 36 persons were arrested for dis. orderly conduct. A mass meeting of labourers was Held her this mora after Wi 000 of them, including a large number of we: men, marched in orderly array through the city, carrying banners and singing harmless jabour songs, They were accompanied by 3,000 police as a precautionary measure, Enthusiasm Dampened by Rain Osaka, May 1. am for the May Day de-ion was dampened by rain and only 15,000 demonstrators turned out, though fully 20,000 were expected. A" procession was formed and proceeded peacefully along, guarded by a thousand policemen." Conspiewous among those in the.procession, most of whom were clad in overalls and sailor-tke trousers, were a number of Koreans, tired in their white native gar-rents. The latter represented the tens of thousands of Korean workers, now employed in this part of Japan, An independent May Day demonstration was held at Nada, near Kobe, famous for the distilling of saké.—Reuter.
Tue Nanking Government is la; yiting tenders for the construct of a new road from Nanking to the tomb of the late Dr Sun Yat-sen,
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