Tokio, Jan. 25.
The opening sessions of the Diet have seen storm after story of vehement criticism break upon the head of the Premier, Admiral. Baron Kato, who has just recovered after several days' illness. Nothing that ho has done seems to find favour in the eyes of the Opposition, and his magnum opus, the conclusion of the Four Power Treaty and the agreecment for the limitation of naval armaments, have been most bitterly assailed, some of the speakers even going the length of declaring that the conclusion of the Washington treaties only humiliated Japan and enabled Great Britain and the United States to neutralize all the "rights" and "privileges" that this country had secured. The scene in the Lower House was a memorable one. Volley aitter volley was fired at the emaciated-looking Premier, who, however, maintained a dignified and poker-faced attitude—his greatest asset perhaps. As few of the verbal assaults seemed to mahs any impression on him, heavier guns were trained, but the Premie= maintained his imperturbability and immobility of countenance, just as if nothing was the matter.
To give the meeting of the Japanese Lower House its customary and appropriate touch, members of the Seiyukai and the Kenseikai, tha Ministerial and Opposition parties, respectively, created one of the periodical rows for which the Japanese Lower House is becoming notorious, ugly epithets being bandied from one end to another of the room, with one or other of the more pugilistically-inclined lan-makers rushing forth to close int with an assailant on the opposing benches, but being unceremoniously returned to his seat by the Marshals maintained to preserva order
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