Darting between cars, he entered the garden park, a manicured city block of lawns and winding walkways beneath the branching limbs of old trees.

Many of the large country houses of to-day, and nearly all the landscape- gardened parks, belong to that date.

Tensions soared as police erected barbed wire barricades and blocked all main roads leading to the Mochi Gate Garden park.

The Chinese Tower beer garden in the English Garden park, known for its tall wooden pagoda, is a classic, but farther away from the festivities.