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Show STRIKERS DEMAND INVESTIGATION OF, TREATVRIOHTS LEADERS APPEAL TO AMBASSADOR AMBASSA-DOR TAKAH IRA. j Message Recites That the Sheriff, Without Warrant of Law, Broke Into Editor's Office. Honoluhj,' June 15. Strong efforts are being made by tho Japanese strikers to get the Japanese government govern-ment to make ' an International incident inci-dent of the forcible entry Into tho office of-fice of a local Japanese newspaper and the seizure of papers by the Sheriff Sher-iff last Friday. Leaders in the striko appealed to Ambassador "Takahira at Washington by ;cablo today and demanded de-manded an immediate investigation J of the alleged violations of treaty rights. The message recites that the sheriff, sher-iff, without warrant of law, broke into the offices of tho Jiji. arrested its editors, seized"' their private papers and books, and complains of other acts of the sheriff and territorial authorities. auth-orities. Determined efforts, it Is said, also are being made to secure the Influence In-fluence of the prosont parties in Japan Ja-pan in the matter and to get the influential in-fluential newspapers in the empire to bring pressure to bear upon the Japanese Jap-anese government to institute an inquiry in-quiry into the arrest of Japanese subjects sub-jects and the seizure of their papers by the territorial authorities. |