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JAPAN.
DEPARTMENTAL.
Decypher. Sir C. Greene (Tokio) December 2
D. 4.30 p.m.
R. 11.15 p...
No. 489.
December 2nd 1915.
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Secret. My telegram No. 460.
After prolonged negotiations complete secret
understanding was arrived at with Government for depor-
tation of Thakur and Gupta and an administrative order
of the Home Office was issued on Saturday giving them
notice to leave Yokohama by steamer not later than to-
night. Indians have made use of this interval to enlist
sympathy in the press and in the Opposition, and have
demanded prolongation of time granted by the Minister
of the Interior, which the latter has (Prefused). They
have been under police surveillance but last night
they took refuge in the house of Professor Toyama and the Japanese authorities profess to have no legal
right to enter the house and enforce the order of de-
portation. There the matter rests at present. Meanwhile
steamer on board of which they were to have left for
Shanghai and Hongkong and with regard to which I had
made nocessary arrangements for their (group undecyph-
erable) at ece, has sailed by now. I understand that Ministers are desirous of carrying out their arrange-
ment with us. but are alarmed at (?) creation of a grow- ing agitation inside and outside Parliament.
Bent to Tudia.
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