The Mena weekly star., 1913-09-11
LAPS ARE CRYING
 |. FOR WAR ON CHINA
Al Tokio Mass Meeting 15,OOO De- handed Military ActiOn-Want Troops Sent to Avenge Jap
 Dcalhs in Chinese Revolt.

Tondon, Sept. 8.-A Tokio dis match says to the Mail says;
 "The government announces that fl is formulating terms for presen- tation to China regarding the Nan king murders and insults offered to two Japanese military officials" ToLio. Sept. 8.-The assassination of Morliaro Abe. director of the po- IcicaI bureau of the Japanese for oign office. has inflamed the masses and a dramatic chapter in the his forv of the new Japan was written. Fifteen thousand persons gather od in mass meeting in Hibiya Park calling for military action against China. A majority of these marched to fine foreign office and clamored for admission. They demanded the disnafrh of troops to China to take such measures as were necessary to obtain satisfaction for the killing of Japanese at Ranking, or, failing in this. the, resignation of the min ister of foreign affairs, Baron No- buaki Makino.
 \ Word About California. The speakers denounced the emp tiness of Japanese diplomacy in connection with California and China. and insisted that the insult to the Japanese flag at Ranking should be wiped out. The mani festation was clearly an explosion of popular resentment of the Cali fornia and Chinese questions. proh0ng by the lesson of the riots which followed the conclusion of peace between Russia and Japan, the government reduced the risk of violence today by refusing to allow a single soldier or policeman at the scene.
 The manfestants, many of whom were students, were orderly in the early part of the proceedings. A score of agitators, including a girl, decried Japanese diplomacy and de- clared that it had never contributed to the upbuilding of the empire and always had ended in failure. The incidents in China were unbear- able
 \ Stampede to the Office.
 Suddenly the cry to march on the foreign office was raised, and there was a general stampede, many per sons narrowly escaping being crushed. The crowds surged through the streets, headed by the gesticuIatng leaders, and reached the foreign office to find that the high iron gates were locked.
 Scores of the demonstrators pounded on the gates and called for them to be opened, but in vain. A delegation was appointed, the mem bers of which climbed the gates and then ensued a long barley with of ficias.
 Meanwhile the crowd showered compliments on a beautiful geisha girl struggling by in a rickshaw, but angrily stoned a photographer Seeking to take snap shots of the child delegate, who, having re- turned, mounted the portals to re- port progress. Perched unsteadily on the pickets, he made a fantastic picture, and in a harsh harangue declared that the committee de- handed either the dispatch of troops or the retirement of the for eign minister.
 Peoples Voice Speaks"
 We told the officials" he shout ed, that the voice of the people speaks; that the agitation will nev- CT end until our demands are granted"
 The extraordinary situation con- tnued for five hours, the delegates emerging periodically to pacify the crowd. Finally, when the discus slon ended, they reported that Ba- Ton Makino had promised to receive them September i5.
 A second mass meeting was held as arranged, and at it's conclusion great crowd proceeded to the for elgn office Windows were smashed and the gates of the foreign office, the tramway cars and motor cars We're stoned. Part of the tramway service had to suspend. The house oi Vice Minister Keishiro Matsui also was visited.
 There is considerable feeling in the army over the killing of Jap ahense at Ranking, as well as over lne Ill treatment of fvo Jananese