The Government has been at! pains to state, through the Press, that it Is not opposed to a Proletar ian Party as such but only to the tone which it suppressed after an embryonic existence. In Japan this is tantamount to saying that it proposes to abort eny organization which is likely truly to reflect the:
ews which the term proletarian generally held to imply. It is not too wild a conjecture to suspect that as a counter-measure the Gov-
Grnment may even go 40 far axl Kuunch a pseudo-proletarian party of its own with a programme st in necordance with what it thinks good for the people. Such Gilbertian happenings are still possible in the land of the Mikados. The police have taken the curious course of, appealing to the good sense of the people whom the Agrarian and Industrial Workers' Party professed to represent for support in their action. The mass of workers in the country are too apathetic to pay much attention to appeals of jatribes from either side,
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