'Thanks to smart work on the part lof the police authorities, the man who committed the fig' outrage at. the U.S. Embassy during the luncheon hour yesterday was arrested in Osaka at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
He proves to be one Okada Gihei alias Hamada Ryoki, a native of Saitamaken, whence not few disturbers of the country's peace have come.
The flag was recovered by the! Tokio police in Akasaka yesterday afternoon—From Our Own Corres-statesman" and was born in" 1840. He became Minister of Finance in 1881 and continued as such for more {than ten years. In 1691 he formed Jo Cabinet and had' to assume the! Portfolio of finance on the occasion of. the Japan-China War. His second. Ministry from 1896-97 was memorable in the establishment of the gold. monometallic standard, Prince Matovkata was Minister of that followed his. "He was President nance in the Yamagata Minist
lof the Japan Red Crosse Society from 1908'to 1912 and was Lord Keeper lof Seals from 1917" to 1922, when Ihe retired.—Reuter's Pacific Service. pondent.
Tokio, July 2.
With the recovery of the flag and the official regrets already expressed by Baron Shidehara, the incident is Reater's Pacific Service.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.