AFFAIRS IN JAPAN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1560, 16 September 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN JAPAN.

THE PEACE RIOTS.

By telegraph, Press Aes’n, Copyright

Tokio, Sopt, 14An armed mob of 2000, chiefly coolies, boatmen and outcasts attackod tho police station, Custom Houses, official rsßidonccs and large commercial establishments at Yokohama. Forty police woro injured. Tho troops restored order. Denunciation of the peace settlement continues unabated in the principal citiee. Baron Katsura, the Premier, assuiodtbo provincial Government that in order to roaliso tho fruits of viatory it was necessary to exhibit the same remarkable enterprising national energy in expansion end commercial development as was displayed in the war.

Japanese newspapers are indignant at the peaoo riots being oompared to tbe Boxer outbreak and insist that they are Dot associated with anti-foreign or anti- ' Christian foaling. The Mikasa’s upper deck guns gare visible, and it is expected the battleship will bo refloated. Received 9.15 p.m.. Sept. 15. Tokio, Sept 15. Eleven peers at Tokio memoralised the Government as to the failure of the authorities to prevent disturbances in the oily wherein tbe Mikado resides, aekmg why the chief of the metropolitan polioe was degraded, while his superior, Yoshikawa, retained office.

THE MIKASA DISASTER.

A BIG TRADE COMBINATION.

By telegraph, Presa Ass’n, Copyright

Received 10.48 p.m., Sept. 15. Tokio, Sept. 15,

When it was evident that she was sinking the Mikasa was towed to landward and lies on an even keel in six fathoms of water. It is known that two hundred perished.

London, Sept. 15. The Daily Telegraph Tokio correspondent wires that there was a series of explosions, some like the simultaneous reports of many heavy gnns, and others of a dull, mnffiod kind. After the first series a vast sheet of flame enveloped the ship. The moonlight was perfoot. Searchlights from the Bhips on shore and the glare of fire disclosed heartrending spectacles. There were many heroic incidents. Boats were everywhere lowered. The survivors rowed about. Many suffering from casualties helped other rescuers to sa,ve numbers. Count Yamamoto, Minister of Marine, declared that a cooferenee of naval offiere all agreed that the disaster wa3 due to au accidont. > Vice-Admiral Misu is chairman of a commission of Inquiry now proceeding. The finding will be published. The guns are beiDg removed preparatory to refloating the vessel. Received 11.20 p.m., Sept. 15.

Iwade, a millionaire, presided over 'a combination of 81 influential firms in Japan, formed to develop industries and expand foreign trade, ohiefly in Korea and China. The combination is prepared 00-operate with foreign capitalists.