The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-22
JAPAN STANDS PAT ON HER
 WAR PLANS

Tokio, April 22-The Imperial Diet of Japan. now in the third month of it's forty-fourth session, has sue ceeded in voting down, by a vote of 259 to Al, all attempts to discredit the government under the present Hara Ministry. Herein may be sum med up all the measures and the standpat votes of the present session
 Before the session have come the questions of disarmament Japan's failure to postpone astounding pre- farationS for more than mere defense, the question of unnecessary mainten- ance of troops in Siberia, maladmin- istration in Korea, the issue of the continued vioIationof all international agreements in aid of the opium bus mess by this nation.
 Just as promptly as these questions have been brought up by some Oppo- sition orator in either the House of Representative or the House of Peers there has come before one of these two houses government minister, who, calm in his assurance that his heavy Seiyukai majority will vote him confidence, has, in unruffled tones, explained the government ideas on the questions
 Move on Local Matters.
 Strange to say, the government has violated its originally intended pro gramme in two matters. First, the demand for the raising of schools in Tokio, notably the Higher Technical School, to a higher standing, and, sec- ond, the lending of assistance to the rice farmers, has caused action Both of these two progressive activities, the final apparent intention to raise the schools, and the decision to give aid to the farmers, have come about "nly after demonstrations have threatened to cause trouble for the members of the Diet These are absolutely the only two measures which seem asSur- ed of success, unless one might men tioa the fact that the Diet at one highly complimentary session decided that the Crown Prince, youth of twenty years, really should take a trip to Europe, and forthwith voted him a few hundred thousand yen for additional warship escort expenses.
 New Party Grows.
 After the Diet reopened, January 25, a split was threatened from MT. Ozaki. man of progressive ideas, who criticized the Governments policy of shipbui1ding and general high ex- penditures. MT. Ozaki is now in the south of Japan, addressing thousands of his countrymen and apparently succeeding in forming the first inde- pendent party ever known in Japan.
 Siberian Issue Baked.
 ViScount Kato, leader of the oppo- sition, has flayed the Hara Ministry and the Government as a whole for its policy in Siberia He has taken up the shooting of an American naval
  try, Private Ogawara, and has at tempted to show that Japan's contiu- ued maintenance of troops in this district will only serve further to enl- harrass the nation is it's international relations He has attack the Govern ment for its failure to secure CO., operation in China business, and has put on record as the most formidable opponent to Premier Hara's Govern ~ment Baron Baito, Governor-Geperal -l. hos Srr-iN- in Tnt- -iT heavily guarded against revolutionists to do what he can toward explaining the spread of revolutionary ideas and dangerous thoughts which the Government fears are increasing each day in Korea
 News of the mysterious death in Tokio of Bin Gen-shoku. Korean na- = tionalist leader, a relative of the for mer raigning family in Korea and a noted pro-Japanese ,and, the holding of a young Korean independent in connection with Gen-shoku's death, has been suppressed by the police.