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Show DIET REJECTS SUFFRAGE, POLICE BEAT UP RIOTERS TOKIO. July (By the Associated Associ-ated Press.) Universal suffrage was defeated In the lower house of parliament parlia-ment today when a resolution providing provid-ing for It, Introduced by the opposition, opposi-tion, was rejected by s vote of 155 to 283. While the measure was being de- h-Ued Immense crowds assembled In nearby parks and held pro-suffrage demonstrations. Although they per-mltted per-mltted meetings In mors distant parts of the city, tho police refused to allow al-low speech-making near the diet building Students hold an indoor meeting at which an attempt was made to adopt r solutions censuring the cabinet for hinderlnK the development of tho nation," na-tion," but the police Interfered and broke up the meeting. arresting a scon-. |