Tokyo Tramwaymen and Bus Drivers Back at Work Tokyo, Dee. 7.
What was at first thought to be the beginning of one of the most serious strikes in the capital in years has been barely averted through the good offices of the Chief lof the Metropolitan Police.
The strike of the municipal tramear and omnibus employes, numbering some 25,000, which was declared by union leaders on Thurs day morning, was called off late in the same evening as the result of a compromise having been reached between the strikers and the Municipal authorities, Mr. /Marayama, Chief of the Metropolitan Police, being conscious of the serious Jeensequences of the strike, acted as mediater in the dispute.
At 8.40 Thursday evening, repre~ sentatives of the striking employes and of the municipal electricity Dureau met in the presence of Bir. Maruyama and signed a compromise agreement, which had been drafted by Mr. Marayama.—Rengo. found their death in the river, colouring the water red.
Yesterday the heal of the former police, under whom during the first Siege the city gates were opened for the robbers, was executed in 'a most terrible way. He was actually cut in pieces and the inward parts were taken out of him. This was to be his punishment because he had been the cause of the death of many people. In many places: the maize has been cut down which a terrible loss to the poor sulfering people."
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