Difficult

Four Russian agitators, after dallying several months in China, arrived at the Tokyo railroad station. A straggly thousand Japenese workmen desired to see them, meet them, fraternize. The Tokyo police were instructed to prevent these courtesies, and, 400 strong, intervened between the visitors and the astonished workmen. Some violence and a few injuries ensued.

The dauntless four and a few followers proceeded afoot between lines of police to the Imperial Hotel, singing, as they went, the forbidden "Internationale." The four took rooms; the police took rooms opposite. A guard was set around the hotel.

The Japanese Government continues to seek means of excluding undesirable Russians without withdrawing the recognition which it granted to the Soviet.