The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-05
PREMIER OF JAPAN
 STABBED ID DEATH
 BY DEMENTED BOY
Assassination Comes at Mo- ment When Country Is h. tenSeIy Interested In h.
 ternationaI Problems
By Aeaociatad Press

1Okio, November 4-Premler Hara was fatally stabbed in the breast to- day at the railroad station in Toldo
 He died an hour later. The assas- sin, who is 19 years old and de- mented, was arrested.
 The premier was on his way to KiotO to attend a political meeting. He died in the station where he was attacked.
 Viscount Yasuya Uchida, foreign minister, Is acting as premier.
 The assassination of Premier Hsra comes at a dramatic moment, when the Japanese delegation is assem- bling for the Washington conference and when Japan Is intensely interest cd in the international issues is which Premier Hara has until nov taken such an important part He had been urged to head the deiega- ton to Washington and for a time had the matter under consideration. but finally decided that his services would be better employed at home during the discussions at Washing ton.
 Premier Hara frequently addressed the Japanese diet concerning the se- rious work ahead for Japan at Wash ington and on October 6 he expressed the view that Japan's chief aim would be to put an end to race barriers He later conferred with the Amerl- can ambassador at Tokio and the pre- mier soon afterward announced at meeting of the government party that Japan was willing to compro- mise on the Shantung question with China, which had long been a main subject of controversy.
 Premier Hara declared in recent | statements that Japan was ready to accept a limitation of her naval es- | tablishment along with the rest Of the world and always keeping in mind the necessities of her national de- fense.
 Premier Since 1918 Takashi Hara has been premier Of | Japan since 1918, when he formed cabinet after the fall of the Terau- chi ministry, the Sieyu- kai party, or which he was a leader. taking control. The position of the premier and his party was confirmed by the general election in May, 1920. that party se- curing a great majority.
 The premier has had a long and distinguished political career. Born In 1854, he was for some time in the foreign office service, both at home and abroad, and was vice irin- ister for a time in 1895 He Joined the late Prince Ito In organizing The Seiyu-Kai party in 1900. and shortly afterward became minister of com munfcations in the cabinet. Later he served again as head of that de3irt- ment of the government in the Seiyu- -Kai cabinet of t906-0s. resign ing with the fall of that ministry and travelling in Europe and America in the latter part of 1908 and in 1909. On his visit to this country he vas received by President Roosevelt in Washington in September. 1908
 M. Hara re-entered the cabinet in 1913 as minister of home affairs. and in 1918 formed the cabinet now in office.
 studied Law In Youth
 When youth NJ. Hara studied law for time but early forsook it for journalism. through which work came his introduction into the for- eign office service During d later interval in his political career in 1s96-97 he was editor Of the osaka Mainichi and took up again the chief editorship of that paper for time before entering the Saionji cabinet as minister of the interior In 1906
 In May, 1920, a plot was discovered to assassinate Premier Hara. the de- tails coming out November last by publication of the findings of pre- liminary court. which tried former artilleryman named Iti. charged with planning an attempt against the ire mier's person. seven bombs were to have been employed In the attemot- ed assassinatio which was to have taken place on May 8. 1920, the sonrt findings showed.
 It was asserted that Ito came 10 Tokio an dpurchased d revolver and explosives, making his bombs out of bottles and boxes. On taking them out into the streets. however. he was knocked down accidentally by an au- tomobile. and the police discovered the internal machines he had devised and unraveied the plot.