Tokyo, Apr. 28, Mr.' Mario Takahashi, the, new chief of Tokyo's Metropolitan Polic today called his captains into confer ence to consider the measures which are to be taken to cope with the parades which will be held on May Day by the proletariat of Greater Tokyo.
All Police reserves will be.on daty during the day, although disorders fare not expected—United Press.
Apr. 28, According to the "Yomiuri" there have been wholesale arrests of the Jeftiy elements Ju the Farmers ni It is stated that about 1,000 men have been arrested of whom approximately a third will be propose ented on a charge of disturbing the The trouble appears to be due to the growing diffeulty of living which. radical agitators are exploiting to serve their own ends.
Tt is also reported that four students of the Taisho University, a Buddhist institution, have been arrested on a charge of carrying on. radical activities under the guise of "Two anti started in Japan recently by. Leftists, apparently on Lenin's principle that religion is an opiate for the ople. It was stated that two Japanese, recently returned froih Moscow, where responsible for the organization of an anti-religious] Teague and that a former Buddhist} priest had formed a league aiming' Jat the destruction of existing] religions and the substitution of a ith based on Leftist principles. As the Japanese Constitution guarantees freedom of faith, the Police were perplexed for a time as to fvhat action they could take. The arrests made ona charge of carrying on radical act under the: guise of an anti-religion movement apparently provide a solution of the May 1.
Undaunted by the unfavourable Jweather prevailing, a mass meeting jof workers, including women and Koreans representing various labour bodies, opened this, morning /Shibaura, on the outskirts of Tokyo.
Fifteen thousand workers, including a number of women, participated in the May Day demonstrations.
Demonstrations are also being held in Kobe, Kyoto, and Nagoya, but much smaller numbers are taking part in them there.
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By noon over 500 people had been arrested in connection with the May Day celebrations and a stu police cordon has now been drawn! Jalong all the main streets traversed jby the demonstrators. One worker was arrested for distributing projvocative handbills and 25 others wrested in the centre of the city for waving red flags.
During a mass meeting at Yoko-30 speakers were suspended owing to the inflamma-204 mass while
nweting at Shibaura were arrested for creating distarbanees by singing labour songs—Reuter.
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