Tokyo, Feb. 27. cident, it is not at all hard to guess. So far as the interruptors are concerned, the whole thing was evident ly a put-up job. They were well-Paid to do what they did, and they knew that they were perfectly safe from arrest. As for the Assembly, they were probably not without an inkling before hand of the nature of what was to take place. There is little doubt that the members of the Assembly, also, stand to profit financially by taking part in this little stage-play. One may go so far as to guess that, their face having been well saved, ard their pockets well, lined, we' shall not hear much more from the members of the Assembly, either about self-government for Hupeh, or about the tyranny of Wu Pei-fu, or about the injustice of appointing a non-Hupeh mar as Civil Governor of the Province.
During this afternoon's session of the Upper House Baron Shidehara, speaking regarding immigration, declared that the Government was determined in future courage only grants with] sufficient initial funds for _undertaking industrial and agricultural, enterprises. The Foreign Minister promised thorough discus this question of immigration policy at the forthcoming general meeting of consuls concerned—Reuter's Pacific Servi Tue China Agency learns that the Extraterritoriality—Commissioners will leave Peking for Shanghai on March 10, Mr. Silas Strawn, the American delegate who chairman of the Commission, come as head of the Commission.
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