GENERAL CABLES.
SUFFRAGE EXCITEMENT IN JAPAN. FIGHT FOR POLITICAL LIBERTY Received 8.45 a.m. TOKIO, February 16 The great agitation to compel the Japanese Government to liberalise its narrow suffrage proposals is reaching significant and undreamed of strength, partly the result of volcanic effects of bolshevik ideas and partly due to the spectacle of marvellous achievements of enfranchisement in Westerners. The present voting power being in the hands of the commercial class and landowners led to extensive corruption. The majority (the people claim, is ‘ten million votes, but intellectuals are forming influential socities to organise a huge petition asking for universal suffrage. The Japanese have every 'encouragement to persist in fighting for political liberty and a cleaner connection with the relations with China.
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Taihape Daily Times, 18 February 1919, Page 5
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122GENERAL CABLES. Taihape Daily Times, 18 February 1919, Page 5
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