Faom Our Own 'Tokyo, May' 20.
Thanks to the prompt intervention of Prince Takamatsu, brother} of His Imperial Majesty, poor! girl from a country town was saved from being dragged down to the sealet dent he of Tokyo's under.
The girl, aged 18, was offered a job as a servant in a Tokyo household. With the consent of her parents, she journeyed to the capital where she was mot as appointed land taken to the licenced quarter. Here, she was sold for Yen 300, but not until she was ordered to ceive and entertain goeata" did she realize the sordid den into whi The ud tation She. stubbornly ne0 fused and was sold to another house, the keeper of which was known to be a hard and a cruel task-master. From this house she the Japan-America Society Inst week. Mr. Charles BMacVeagh, American ambassador, was entrust.
with giving the articles to Prince Tokugawa, The articles in question were enclosed in a spectallymade case, on the inside of the lid of which wi brief inscription fending with "From Commodore Perry's Granddaughter." Prince Tokugawa, us president, of the AmericaJapan Society here, accepted the relies on behalf of the Japanese nation.
Among others present at the ceremony wore Admiral Mark Bris tol, commander of the American Asiatic Fleet; Count Chinda, Grand Chamberlain to the Emperor; Viscount Ishii, formerly Japanese am bassador to Paris and many distin guished Jxpanese and American naval officials. managed to run away and bought General Machine Attacked ticket to Yokosuka, the big Japanese naval base about 85 miles from While he was preparing to return Tokyo, in order to see her brother to China, four thugs attacked Ma-who was a sailor on the cruiser Jor-General Muchino, adviser to Yakumo. The brother told her 'Chang Tso-lin, and a' friend in the that he could do nothing.
General's room at the Imperial Somehow or other, word of the hotel yesterday. Those who pers affair reached the cars of Prince petrated the outrage are believed to Takamatsu who is making a trip be hired political gangsters who aboard the Yakumo to the South) were egged on to the deed by some, Sea Islands and Australia. His political faction, Imperial Highness immediately or-'The four soshi (political gang-dered that some temporary prosters) entered the hotel late at jon be made for the' girl, and night and asked the clerk-in-charge telegraphed to his scerctary to sce to them up to General the maiden safe and sound in her} Machine's room. On being admit parents! home. The secretary made ted, they demanded that the Gen-the necessary inquiries and—pur-eral take them to China with him, chased the gin's freedom for ¥.500.
When he refused and asked them to eave his room, they became abusive Commodore Perry's Relies and suddenly attacked him and one Mr, Suzuki, a friend of the Gon A lock of hair, a wedding ring, afcrai's, with loaded sticks. button and some gold braid from Commodore Perry's uniform—all relics of the American who played 'a major role in inducing Japan to throw aside hor policy of isolation—presented to the Japanese people descendants Prince Tokugawa at a luncheon of General Blachino, who is a bit of a jiusjitsu expert, gave a good count of himself and brought one of his assailants ty the floor, His friend was, however, rather hi eaten about the head and is now hospital. In the ensuing confusion all the four assailants managed to escape,
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