Tokyo, Dec. 27.
The Japanese Diet to-day convened long enough to elect officers and then adjourned until January 20.
The House of Peers elected Prince K. Tokugawa as chairman of the
2 resolution expressing gratification Committee of the House and passed for the work of Prince Teta Tokugawa, former President of the House.
The lower House elected Mr. Teijiro Honda, of the Seiyukai Party, as chairman of the House Committee. The resignation—of Mr. Yosuke Matsyoka, who. withdrew from the House and from the Seiyukai party amid a fanfare of charges against existing political parties, "was accepted United ress.
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