Show INDEPENDENTS 7 SHOW BIG IG GAINS I Result of f I MANIFESTED ALL PARTIES UNITED ON HE I i it I t 1 Tokio March final returns return 1 ot of the he parliamentary el elections show that over new members were elect elected elected ed The large increase o of the inde independent pendent m membership Is regarded as a favorable sign Of late years r USe tile dIet has largely been composed or of poll and popular int rest and eon con confidence in it has decreased The dt diet t tIn In consequence has ceased to be the great representative body the constitution constitution proposed P Political issues have caused and frequent dis dissolutions dissolutions solutions making the part parth partly ly h an oligarchy instead of a constitutional constitutional administration rhe war var has ye re i Interest in national affairs and I the new nev diet Is regarded as an provement on Its immediate predecessors sots sors I Subscriptions to the war bonds gUts gifts I It t to the new war fund anti to war charitIes ha have been exceedingly large Time The subscription list for the I Issue of the first or of war Kl bonds which closes on March 1 will willbe willbe be oversubscribed four times Tile The Relief society which is b bing be being ing promoted by Counts nail Inouye e reports subscriptions approach log ing yen Donations totalling yen en alread already hoe have been en paid to the war fund Hundreds of applies have beep been made tor fm permission to contribute to the army and navy lUny relief funds the amounts offered making a total of yep The Ladies Patriotic society largely composed of peeresses and the wives of nobles is raisins raising a fund in aM ahl of th the TIed fled Cross The latter society nl al already ready possesses a large larse fund and an extended organization in Japan |