Tokyo, Sept. 7.
That His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, with a view to encouraging sports, hax dec: audience the 50 young athletes, who participated in the 8th Olympic Games held at Amsterdam, has given not a little impetus to the sporting circles in Japan. The date of 2e ig wnoficially fixed about the middle of next month, when there will be given an ela: borate reception on the athletic krounds of the Meiji Shrine in honour of the participants in the Olympic Games under the auspices of various public bodies—Toho. the country. The majority were the ily gullible sons and daughters of the-soil, but there were also quite a number of educated persons who hed fallen under the baneful and yypnot'c sway of this chariot amongst these being Commander Ginjiro Nakai, a former naval officer.
The authorities are greatly concerned. over the seeming ease with that its president, Mr. Hamaguchi, harboured a member of the Tokyo Municipal Assembly, charged with having accepted bribes, for three Gays in his house. The report has turally embarrassed—Minsetto members considerably, although it was promptly denied by Mr. Hamapuchi.
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