JAPANESE POLITICS
WANT-OF-CONFIDENCE MOTION DEFEATED A TURBULENT SESSION By Telegraph—Preus Association-Copyright. (Rec. February 21, 8.20 p.m.) Tokio, February 20. A motion of want of confidence in the Government was defeated in the House of Representatives by 259 > otes to 141. The session was extremely turbulent, police reserves being held both within and without the Diet building. The galleries had been crowded at every sitting, many women being present. Visitors hooted the. speakers on both benches, and many arrests were made. Outside popular meetings were held in several parks, all demanding tho immediate resignation of the Government. Opposition speakers in the Diet declared that the G-ivernment was never thinking, of the people, but always ot maintaining the Ministerial party. Government supporters, replying, declared that the policy of ’the Government was always justifiable, although the results were not always, satisfactory.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 127, 22 February 1921, Page 5
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140JAPANESE POLITICS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 127, 22 February 1921, Page 5
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