Show JAPANESE PRINCE HAS CLOSE L CALt CALLi YOUTH DRESSED AS LABORER FIRES SHOT PROGRAM IS 18 CONTINUED Government Head Had Proceeds Proceed to MeetIng Meet Meet- Ing of or Diet end and Calmly D fie Oe f. f livers Speech Viscount Hurt A A youth dressed as a laborer labor labor- er was waa arre arrested ted by bl police Thursday shortly after 10 he had fired tired at Prince Regent Relent In an attempted as The Th youth Is I. 20 years old Police believe he is 1 insane The princes prince's assailant was wu badly mauled by bl the crowl crowd which caught him before the police reached the spot The Th crowd turned him over to the officers The Tile shooting has aroused intense excitement and feeling Is running high throughout the city The attack occurred while the prince regent was 1181 on his hi way to a session of ot the diet The assailant used a cane gun PD in firing at the automobile The windows of the machine were smashed and the bulet bul but let lee et narrowly missed the head of ot the prince regent recent He lIe continued on his way to the refuge in the upper house of the diet composed of peers Later he convened the diet in ordinary session ses es sion Ion with customary ceremonies at af ter which he returned to the Imperial palace under heavy beavy guard Authorities are conducting a rigid investigation of the attempt on the prince e regents regent's life Ute They are ot of the opinion that others ma may be im in a plot to assassinate hito Viscount Iriye member of the house of peers and nd chief cham chum chamberlain to the prince regent who was accompanying him In the automobile was slightly Injured when he was WIlS cut by a fragment of ot broken glass When appeared in the the- upper upper up up- per per house of the diet there was no Indication apparent that anything un tin toward had occurred The prince re gent read a speech to the members of the house In a calm voice and then retired Visitors at the session were not allowed to leave the building un tin til the regent had departed on his way back to the imperial palace None of ot those tho present at the session which lie he addressed were aware aware of the shooting and when Dews news of ot the attempted assassination became known they expressed the he highest al ad for the manner in III which he had conducted himself |