JAPANESE ELECTIONS
,esia.u.is.s a.nii n. 7. iur.u aseOciatios. JAPA N ESE E L EOT lONS. TOKIO, ’May 12. ’1 ne latest returns show the Kenseikai Party have 142 seats, the Sei.vukai Party 89. the Seiyohanto Party 102, the Knkausliin Party 29 and the Independents 03. There remain 39 seats yet uncertain, hut it is believed the Keuseikai Party will win the greater number of these. The non-Goveinmeiit parties are certain to have an overwhelming majority. This is the most crushing defeat received by any Cabinet during the past quarter of a century. Minister Minuno, who is urging Premier Kiyourn to remain ill office lias conferred with Marquis Saionji, the Elder Statesman, and is understood to have asked him to approve of another dissolution of the Diet. It is not believed, however, that the venerable Leader will countenance sue', a step in the face of the avowed unpopularity of the Kiyourn Cabinet. The Keuseikai Party are already preparing prospecting Cabinet lists. Viscount Knto is considered to be ttio most likely aspirant for the Premiership.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1924, Page 2
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