In the course of a bitter attack on political parties in Japan, Mr. Yukio Ozaki, one of the stand-out Liberals of Japan and a man who never minces his words, told news paper men that the only way to halt corruption in Japan, "which is, pervading the entire political structure of the country," is to establish a super-party cabinet of honest and igh-souled men, He characterized Japanese politic lay as "little better terial calibre hax been guilty of criminal conduct." Mr. Ozaki has been a Cabinet Minister himself? formerly holding the position of Minister of Justice, is regularly elected from his constituency—he is. tone of the very few who docs not have to fight for his seat in the Diet—and is convinced that the only way to cleanse the Augean political stables of Japan is by "re-establishing the Government on the decent basis of a Cabinet that stands superior to party and factional intion is rife, tut added that ie would of be right to lay the blame entirely at the doors of the Government, "for all present-day political parties are shot through with corruption. The two-party system may be constitutionally correct, but both major parties are no better than gun men armed burglars and if Japan is to progress constitutionally, a super-party Cabinet should take charge until the political parties fare able to prove that their sense of duty is above their love of The Retrocession of Weihaiwei The agreement reached between Grout Britain and China for the retrocession to China of Weihaiwei is the subject of considerable comment in the Japanese press which thinks that this marks an important for China and contains much food for Japanese reflection. wei came to be occupied as a result of Germany seizing Kino-chao and Russia Port A\ ud Dairen, and how at Versailles and at the Washington conference the Powers were urged to retrocede their settlements in China, The British, however," says the di fel 1022 dragged on til China despaired of ever getting: hack her own territory. In the meantime, Britain decided toe trench more and more at Shangh and still maintains an army of occupation there. Weihaiwei soon became more or less useless except asa place for the British China Squadron to spend the summer, and
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