It is not clear to what extent the police injunctions were obeyed. The} Labour Party maintain that they were, in fact, fally complied with, while the police as resolutely maintain that they were not. However! that may be, the police continued take action under the Peace Preservation Act. The first conivention of the Japanese Agrarian and Industrial Workers' Party, to quote its full official description, broken up: The trouble was api ently started by the "Communists, who had been more or less ejected from the party. A. three-cornered. fight followed, in the course of which stones and furniture were thrown at speakers by the irate Commu-rusts, and the police intervened to arrest anyone they could lay hands upon with complete impartiality, and the meeting came to an abrupt. end. Several people were injured the scrimmage.
The poli ing succeeded the accomplishment of their immediate object, released most of the arrested men the next day. The (question was at once raised as 19) how far the police were acting within their constitutional rights. The Home Office states that it will wei-
Jcome any impartial inquiry into the matter, and adds that its a was only taken after exhaustive inquiries into the aims of the new party.
Unfortunately for the prospects of reforming the party, its members are divided into three camps.—The first group comprises the extreme Communists, who will have nothing' to do with any compromise; th to see which way the feat jumps and is prepared to. follow it either way as far as cireumstances will allow; while the third contains the moderate elements, who are prepared to conform to any. reasonable limitations and are confident that they will be allowed to' go on with the formation of the party.
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