Tokyo, Dec. 29.
Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu. LJNR, Japan's new ultra-nationalls: Home Minister, to-day revealed tha all dance halls in the country will be closed in April.
The Acmiral, once known as th? "Stormy Petrel of the Navy," regards dance halls, according to his subordinates, as "a baneful influence upon public mind, a definite threat to good morals, a menace to manners peculiarly Japan's own." The wholesale suppression of dance halls was described by Ministry officials as "a crusade to mobilize national spirit.
Local dance halls, in keeping with the emergency times, held no Christmas Eve celebrations. Instead, special dances were held to celebrate the fall of Nanking, The decorations included flags of Japan, Germany and Italy.—Domei,
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