The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-19
JAPANESE MODS
SPREAD|N c TERROR
TROOPS ARE BEING USED TO
SUBDUE FOOD
RIOTERS.

VKOOfS AXE 0EAN0 OSGD ~
SUBDUE FOOD
RIOTERS.
Toxic, Friday, Aug. l9.-(By The
Associated Press. 1.-The newspapers
have been prohibited from printing
reports of the progress OF the rice
riots and there is an absence OF
news from the provinces. A state
ment issued today by Minister OF the
Interior Mizumo says that the gov
ernors have assured the ministry
that the disorders are abating stead
lily.
The organization OF proprietors
and editors of newspapers had adopt
ed resolution declaring that the
prohibition against news OF the riots
is an unprecedented and arbitrary
interference with the right OF Tree
speech as granted by the constitu-
ton. They demand cancellation
of the order. The constitutional
party declares that the order OF the
government is harmful because II
suppresses news of national sociai
movement vitality affecting the peo-
pie. ,,o-s
1t is the general impression here
that the rice question has Decoh'e
political.
Toxic. Aug. lS.-(Sunday)-
Troops have been called out in near
" every important city in Japan
Even the naval station at Maizuru
is affected by the unrest. lwo
thousand workmen there are rio.'
ing in conjunction with the popu'
lace. =.
At Nagoya, noted for its manu-
facture Of porcelain, mob estlma'
ted to aggregate 5000 persons
rioted. At several places the SOL
diers fired on the disturbers' :.
At Kobe, the soldiers and ponce
also were obliged to use saDers ah'
bayonets against the rioters.
Osaka, Japan, Sunday, Aug. ls;- j.,
Mobs today pillaged grocery ana or,
goods stores and food depots ana SCI
fire to theaters and other buildings
The military forces called out u
maintain order we're attacked. =,
The street railways have suspend
ed operation at night owing to the
confusion in the city and the gov
ernor has forbidden the people to &c
out upon the streets after dark
It is stated at Maizura, where b.,
600 workmen from the naval arsena
Joined the populace in sacking tn'
rice stores, many persons were III
;ured in collisions with the ponce.
London, Sunday, Aug. lS:-A dis
patch to the Exchange Telegram
from Tien Tsin dated Friday, says
"The Japanese rice riots are prov
inc the worst outbreak against th'
constituted authority witnessed. II
many wears. The rioters are resort
mo tn acts of extreme violence, suci
as the use of dynamite and incen
diarism."
Toxic, Aug. 18.-(Sunday)-lh'
newspaper comment here seems ,'
indicate that the food riots through
ont the country are an expression
of growing social unrest among th'
people and to reflect the belief tina
the empire is advancing toward so
c;al crisis. The riots are spreadin:
involving alike the poor and tn
middle classes who feel impelled II
nrotest against economic, conditions
Geisha Girls Stoned
IT is remarked that the uprising
are often anti-capitalistic in nature
the mobs attacking and destroying
the property of the wealth, AM
yoicing anger at evidence OF lux
uries. Geisha girls have been stone'
as they have driven through TN
streets in automobiles and tn
houses of the rich have been assailed
While the war has created NH
llionaires and increased the luxurie
of the rich, it has also increased TN
misery of the poor because OF insui
ficient wages being paid. Factor.
hands, especially, are tomented D;
the ringleaders of the riots! whici
are the first of the kind to occu
since Japan was opened to western
civilization.
Many Arrests in Toxic:
Disorders broke out in TOXIC OF OF
Tuesday night. A crowd OF 9'ooo
which was prevented from congre
eating in the park, marched TO I'M
Ginza, the great retail thoroughiar'
of the city, where they stoned anS
llamaged 200 stores and restaurants
raided rice depots and unsuccessiul
lly attacked the ministry OF the IN
terror. Ninety arrests were mad'
and twenty policemen were INJURED
Toxic tonight is occupied by heavy
dctachments of police and infantry
The newspapers are forbidden te
,ubI;sb news of any kind relative tC