Ghosts are very popular with the Japanese during the hot, sultry! summer months and magazines go in earnestly for stories relating to the spirit world, while theatres yard ghosts plays at this season fas the best attraction. What is the reason for this seems difficult to say, but a writer in the "Japan Times" thinks that "just as heat-producing meats are substituted by vegetables and lighter foods during the warm season, so stories and plays that, give rise to hearty laughter or intense anger are left for cooler times, hair raising and shudder-Indueing stories and plays being substituted because they tend have a cooling effect mentally as well as physically." This explana ation is given for what it is worth, but there is no gainsaying the fact that, instead of remaining in he. open, the ill-ventilated theatres are} packed with a fanning, perspiring audience whenever dismal and ghai stay, even ghoulish, dramas are portrayed.
'The police have just laid by the heels a clique of gangsters whose forte was to enter some place of refreshment, eat and drink to their hearts' content, and then create 'a disturbance, even threaten the management, and make their way out without paying a penny. The; arrest of this gang revealed that they were led by bobbed-hair flapper who, when pounced upon in a questionable haunt, had a dagger concealed in one of her ray' stockings. The gang she led was known as the "Radio Gang," a, name they were very proud of, because of their boasted superiority to other gangs in informing members where they were and in letting one another know when de-tee tives were out rounding up the moval degenerates of Tokyo.. Her ory is not very diferent from others of her class—abandoned by her parents, adopted by guardians who worked her to the bone, an carly indiscretion and then down the slippery path from cafe to) Ticensed house. Here, generally, finis is written to the career of girls of this type. This young' flapper evidently had some "go" in her to become the accepted leader of a gang of some 40 young roughs, all of. whom obeyed "her word, without' protest. She has been' sentenced to a month's detention.
The Navy's Ideas on Disarmament, Aug. 17.
The Political Affairs Committee of the Government Party, at a special meeting covered esterday, stened to the views of the Navy department, outlined by Rear-'Admiral, Sakonji, with regard to the, progress-of naval disarmament.
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