NOTED JAPANESE DEMOCRAT DEAD
— $ (Rec. August 21, 9 p.m.) Tokio, August 20. Thetleath is recorded of Count Itagaki, who was popularly known as "the father of the Japaneso democracy."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
[Count Itagaki was one of tho few remaining Japanese Generals who took a distinguished part in suppressing tho civil war of tho Restoration. He engaged in long years of hero.'c struggle in the cause of freedom and liberty. In 18S1 lie organised the Japanese Liberal Party, and the democratic movement started by aim exacted from the Government a pn.mise of the inauguration of the Parliamentary system ten years later. He has held Ministerial ollice in hvi> Cabinets. lie retired from tho leadership of the Liberals in K'CO.J
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 280, 22 August 1919, Page 7
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118NOTED JAPANESE DEMOCRAT DEAD Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 280, 22 August 1919, Page 7
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