JAPANESE SUFFRAGE.
PARTAKES OF COERCION. By Telegraph.—Preaa Assn —Copyright Tokio. Feb. 25. The Press is practically united in denouncing the action of the Government in bringing in the police in connection with the uproar in the Diet, especially condemning the issue of visitors’ tickets to the Diet gallery to 200 detectives, which is termed an illegal attempt to coerce the minority of the Diet. During the past two days 50,000 individual petitions to the Government to grant manhood suffrage have been filed in the Diet, the petitioners being passed in single file through the police lines to the Diet and out. Some of the petitions were signed in blood.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1922, Page 5
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109JAPANESE SUFFRAGE. Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1922, Page 5
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