AFFAIRS IN JAPAN.
INTENSE INDIGNATION IN JAPAN. By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 4.31 p.m., Sept. 24. Tokio, Sept. 23. Iwiehi, captain of tho Mikasa, tried to commit suicide by jumping from a window. Ho was seriously injured Of forty memorials to the Mikado from individuals and associations, urging him not to ratify peace, the most conspicuous addross wus sigood by six professors of tho Imperial University, absolutely oondemning the treaty on tho ground that it annuls tbo pm pose of the war ns stated in the declaration of hostilities. Moreover, the pregnant demerits are humiliation in future danger to the national interests. London, Bopt 23. Reuter reports that there is intense indignation amongst influential men in the revelation that the treaty binds Japan not to fortify La Porouee Straits, despite Admiral’s Katsura’s assurance to the contrary. It is considered the most intolerable indignity ever inflicted on a country which was never defeated.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1567, 25 September 1905, Page 2
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