CRISIS IN JAPAN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1668, 7 February 1913, Page 5

CRISIS IN JAPAN.

UPROAR IN THE DIET. ,-j .'■■. : :■ .■ POLITICIANS ATTACKED. By Telegraph—°rwß AssoolMlon—CopyrijM ' Toklo, February 5, i Tho Diet passed a vote of censure on the Government 'after the Budget was introduced, and adjourned for five days. (Rec. February 6, 11.5 p.m.) ' Tokio, February 6. ' vVhen'M. Wakatsuki Keijiro, Minister for Finance in the Japanese Cabinet, presented his Budget, the Opposition violently attacked the Premier, Prince Katsura, as unfit to hold a constitutional Premiership. '',-... Prince Katsura replied amid uiiroar, and read an Imperial Edict adjourning the Diet. .■'','•.-'. Crowds outside cheered the Opposition and threw out tho sccoder3 to Prince Katsura's party from a rickshaw and attempted to duck them in the canal. After a prolonged crisis Prince Katsura's Cabinet took office on December 19 last. The "Kokumin Shimbun" stated that the programme of. the new Cabinet was to reduce tho Estimates by 50,000,000 yen (1C5,OCO,000), to continue loan redemption, to develop the. alliance with Great; Britain and the ententes with other Powers, and to postpone the reduction of taxation pending further investigation. ■ The proposal to postpone the naval and military expansion programmes and: to submit them to a Defence Commission inorder to placate tho advocates of retrenchment aroused the Satsuma party, who controlled the navy and threatened to strike. , ,' ~,'...