Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-23
JAPAN STANDS
FIRM ON HER
WAR PROGRAM
Diets Amazing Military
Preparations Lead to
Questions.
NEW PARTY FORMING

TOXIC, April 25.-The Imperial DIET
Of Japan, now In the third month of it's
forty fourth session, has succeeded In
voting down, by vote of $50 to 141, all
attempts to discredit the government
under the present Hara ministry. Herein
may be summed up all the measures and
the standpat votes of the present session.
Before the session have come the ques-
lions Of disarmament, Japan's failure to
postpone astounding preparations for
more than mere defense, the question of
unnecessary maintenance of troops In
Siberia, maladministration in Korea, the
issue Of the continued violation of all in
ternational agreements in aid Of the
opium business by this nation.
Just as promptly as these questions
nave been brought up by some opposition
orator in either the House of Representa-
tiVes or the House of Peers, there has
come before one of these two houses a
government minister, who, calm in the
assurance that his heavy Seiyukai ma
Jorlty VIII 7ote him confidence, has in
unruffled tones, explained the government
ideas on the questions.
PLANS CALLED OFF
THREATEN TROUBLE.
strange to say, the government has vfo-
TWO matters. First, the demand for the
raising Of schools in Toxic. notably the
Higher Technical School, to q higher
standing, and, second, the lending of as
sistance to the rice farmers, has caused
aetlon. 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 only
AFTER demonstrations have threatened to
cause trouble for the members of the
Olet. These are absolutely the only two
measures which seem assured of success.
unless one might mention the fact that
the Diet at one highly complimentary
session decided that the Crown Prince.
a youth of 20 years, really should take a
trip to Europe, and forthwith voted him
Few hundred thousand yen for addi-
uonal warship escort expenses.
AFTER the Diet reopened Jan. %, a split
was threatened from Mr. Ozaki, man of
progressive ideas, who criticised the gov
ernment's policy of shipbuilding and
general high expenditures. Mr. Ozaki is
now IN the south Of Japan, addressing
thousands of his countrymen and appar-
emily succeeding in forming the first in
dependent party ever known in japan.
LEADER FLAYs
SIBERIAN POLICY.
Niscount Kato, leader Of the orposi-
ton, has fayed the Hara ministry and
the government as a whole for its pol
Icy IN Siberia. He has taken I'D the
shooting of an American naval ueuten-
ant by nervous japanese sentry, Pri-
vate Ogawora, and has attempted to
show that Japan's continued maintenance
OF troops in this district will only serve
further to embarrass the nation in its
international relations. He has attacked
the government for its failure to secure
cooperation in China business, and has
put on record as the most formidable op-
ponent to Premier Hara's government
Baron Baito, Governor General of Korea.
who has arrived in Toxic heavily guard
ed against revolutionists to do what he
can toward explaining the spread of rev.
oiutlohary Ideas and dangerous
thoryhts," which the government fears
are increasing each day in Korea.
News of the mysterious death in Toxic
Of Bin Gen-shoku, Korean nationalist
leader, relative of the former reignins
family in Korea and a noted pro-Japs.
nese, and the holding Of a young Korean
Independent in connection with Cen
shoku's death, has been suppressed by
the police.