Tokyo, Mar. 12.
The combustible material with which the Japanese Diet has been filled ever since it met blazed to white heat yesterday and party passions broke loose, the result being at the Diet was turned into a perfect bear garden with what should be sane and calm legislators shrieking at one another, while the more pugnacious staged fights in various parts of the main hall, What preimitated the disgraceful scene was the introduction by the Government party of the Small Electoral Area Bil, which, the Opposition claimed had' been framed with ay nauting the "safety of" Seiyukat Government party) members. The ame would suggest that this But provides for small electorates all over the country, really it provides for these only in certain sections where, s0 the Opposition claim, the' Seiyukai have safe seats and' two or even three-member constituencies more than once been instrumental in defeating the hot-heads and the protagonists of direct action, Miss Macdonald came to Japan ever 25 years ago and has devoted most of her time and energy to prison welfare work, something that reeded a high degree of courage formerly, owing to the old ideas of a convict being unreclaimable. With-Out exaggeration, it may be said i was Miss Macdonald's work whi led officialdom here to take a more modern view of the prisoner and to seek to make him or her a good citizen, In what high esteem she and her work are held is best illstrated by the various honours conferred on her by. the Emperor, who has granted hier the Order of the Sacred Treasure and, on the Gecasion of the Coronation last year, Eresented her with gold and silver cups bearing the Imperial crest, Jon honour that rarely is accorded in other parts. Accordingly, the Opposition decided to do everything: in its power to delay the business the House and a regular American Mlibuster wag staged, members talking about nothing in particular: for hours on end and thereby wast: ing time.
Obstructionist tactics in the Jap-nese Diet invariably result in at fight. Ugly personal epithets are bandied "up and down and bitter reeviminations indulged i unt rome member rersrts to. blows Rencrally he hits out at the "enemy" nearest to hin, regardless of who: ther this particular law-maker hast given tongue to anything nasty: ind the fat is in the fire, Knowing {hiv full well, a exowd of sergeant AL-arms masted, but were unable to prevent general fighting. Further satearmis, who were the infuriated ber, ex n in. self-defence, ridly beaten into the bargain and yuthed, kicked, and knocked about by both sides in their attempt te separate the pugilistienlly: indin MPa, The fight lasted for about ten minutes, which pandearum bro) fund only ceased when the combatants left the lain hall to got medical reports of in= Juries they had sustained and attend meetings called by their respective party Teaders for tke pur ese of filing actions against othe This rortof thing year after vene tan ad the Inevitable tect Jnaking the Diet an object of scorn tind derision to the general bli, which generally tenets to it by the ara shiba itera the diggut this deploy of nerdcr ty those supposed to ull respons Nise functions and to guaod the tion's interests ne Inepired ver regurd for thie olla) entabone who sontay have the ere
hmenta, The press, 25, may be naginedy pours Sexthing and com temples comment on the Diet twcmibersy seme par ere even wonder:
whether this Occidental meth td governing democratically ever will work in-an Oriental country, es one like Japan, where feadalivm of thought rongly tentronched despite external foreign innovations.
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