CRIME IN JAPAN
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10 a.m.) MANY SERIOUS OUTBURSTS. KOBE, December 8. The November ceremonies came to a climax with the police extremely nervous. Searches and arrests were prevalent- and les majeste charges numerous. It is now reported that in November there were fifty murders in Tokio and suburbs, besides eight by burglars. There were hundreds of armed burglaries, many wouiidings and other crimes proportionately, while arrests were few. Political crime, however, still monopolises the attention of the authorities. There was serious trouble at Loklmaido Imperial University where a thousand students rioted, destroying property, heating officials, mid professors. Following the president's reports to the Minister of Edu-(-nl ion who reported to Cabinet that, although ostensibly a protest against the dismissal of one of the students, the riots were really deep-rooted radicalism among the students.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1928, Page 5
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