The Archive · 1931

Fierce Scenes in Tokyo Diet

Press and the Police: Proposed Holidays for Con-viers: Professors Ask for Police Powers Frow Ove Ow:

Tokyo, Jan. 27.

The Japanese Diet was all but turned into a bear-garden yesterday again when the passions of the Inw-makers of Nippon few high. indications that a storm was gather. ing became perceptible when one of the Opposition members, refer-Zing to the recent tribal troubles in Formosa, insisted that the Govern ment was wrong in terming, the that volt connoted an uprising uprising a "He declared against the State, and that there All the old chairs, desks and whatnots from the old barrack shack at Babasaki-mon—whither the Metropolitan Police Headquarters was temporarily Iocated—will be moved the plea being that, the money sted on the discarded dome—Which was pulled down—must be Jdebitted to furniture account.

The Japanese press hails official who first thought of th form of "perpetual humiliation" of the Metropolitan Police as a verity Jable Solomon and one paper, in the of an editor I note, Femarks ly, the punishment fits this fed against the ad authorities "have tried to 1 uprising as similar. to

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