Osaka, Nov. 26, A serious viot+ involving 5,000 tenant farmers is reported from a village near the city of Gifa, where Jong: litigation between a landlord and his tenant-farmers ended in Favour of the former, who yesterday proceeded to harvest the crop from Sixty-six acres of rice-fields the tenants had ploughed, sown and cultivated. Five' thousand "tenants gathered in the afternoon and protested against, their landlord's Shortly after midnight a fire broke out in the landlord's barn and spread to his residence, causing much excitement and ending in a riot. Tt was afterwards discovered that the fire was due to ineondi-
The police have placed a canton around the district to prevent communication between the rioters and the local headquarters of the Tenant Farmers Union.
The opinion is general, that. the incident ig merely a local eutbur: and will not spread to other triets—Reuter.
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