The vice-president was Mr. IE, Hirasawa, formerly vice-Minister of Communications, and the directors Mr. "Tiger" Kenai, who was well known in Shanghai; Mr. Sonoda, of the foreign department of the Yoko. hama Specie Bank, and Mr. Aburat Toni, managing director of the Sino-Japanese Association, who was cone sidered an expert on' Chinese Affairs, Known throughout Japan as a liberal, Mr. Kodama "served for about '50 years with the Yokohama Specie Bank, and is considered the dean of Japanese bankers. He was offered the post of Minister of Fine ance three years ago, but declined it In his younger days he had a rear reputation as a swordsman Reuter. a Osaka Police Ban Revival of "Hamlet" tion may be "injurious 10 pubic on the ground, that it preset Tokyo, Nov. 2
rmoralg" the Osa poll anned a contemplated rev Hamlet," the first of Shakespeare' plays to! be translated into Japan Exactly how public morals mitt possibly" be endangered mentioned by the police,. believed that the ban
Portrayal of royal for "two pence reasons:
fog and Hamlet's "dangerous thoughts."
For a long time "Hamlet' been. the most popular of Shake public, sick speare's plays among the Japa ocht, Bndlishlongunge sewspet ited by an Englishman ends report on the ban with a quotation from the pi a "There are more things in heaves and earth, Horatio, Than are dred of in your philosophy.""—Reuter.
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