Show AMERICAN ICAN DANCE IN JAPAN STOPPED ED PROMINENT CITIZENS EXPRESS REGRET AT DEMONSTRATION IN CITY OF TOKIO Political Ruffians Take Possession of Dance Hall and Humiliate Amerl Americans ans on Floor Many Women Faint I Tokyo Beyond Dond expression 10 ot 01 profound regret from prominent Japanese Japanese Ja Japanese Ja- Ja there has not yet et been any tangible aftermath of ot the demonstration tion Uon at the Imperial when a band of ot thirty political ruffians raided raid raid- cd ed a dance Ilance to solidify national sentiment senti ment against the American exclusion act No arrests have been made al aI although although though the police say ay they are investigating in inS The chief of police pollee expressed ex cx pressed chagrin and embarrassment It Is learned that the demonstration tion was the combined effort of ot two groups who it t is alleged met outside outside outside out out- side the hotel bent on the same purpose purpose pur pur- pose of shaming Japanese dancers for lor mixing with foreigners which certain classes of ot Japan Japanese se have con con- for Iome some time One group belonged to the Great Forward as- as the other to the Iron IronHeart IronHeart Heart society The Japanese newspapers newspapers news news- papers quote the demonstrators as assaying assaying assaying saying that their chief purpose was not to insult foreigners but to shame pleasure-loving pleasure Japanese Among the auditors of the speeches speech speech- es Cs in which foreigners were called caned unprintable names names names' were the French ambassador Paul Claudel and the Italian ambassador Giacomo de Mar- Mar tino tine One of the demands of 01 the demonstrators demonstrators demon demon- was the expulsion of American Ameri merl merican can missionaries Tokio's Sunday largely was given over to various phases of anti Ameri can agitation Throughout the day lay the grave in Aoyama cemetery of th the unknown subject of the mikado who committed committed commit commit- ted suicide by as a protest against enactment of the American measure was a Mecca for thousands of pilgrims who came to pay their devotions devotion to the man who has become a martyr in the public eye A mammoth crowd attended a public public pub pub- lic memorial service over the grave Hundreds of ot wreaths were ere banked around the small mound of earth where the body lies interred The floral contributions come from Individuals individuals indi Indi- in all walks of life tife Viscount Kato newly premier and former former former for for- mer Takahashi sent wreaths The or Na National National Association to Direct American Amen Ameri can Policy and the Black mack Dra Dragon on society another I organization were the principal promoters of ot the public services The Japanese con congregation legation of ot the Ginza Methodist Episcopal church was was was' urged by a group roup of the Gr Great at Forward Society Sunday to join a 11 movement to divorce the Christian church from American missionary bodies The Great Forward Society Society Socie Sock ty was responsible for the demonstration demonstration demonstration demon demon- at the Imperial hotel Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- night when a a. gang of or political ruffians ruffians disrupted alance u a II dance lance to make anti American speech es |