Owing to the attack en Mr. Atsumi, the followers of the latter are now threatening to make disclosures that will be fatal to more than one reputation in the Ishikawa party. They say tit when the Atsumi board of m magement tonk over the accounts of the temple from the T-hikawa board, a deficit of nearly half a million yen was found. As the money ha! been employed in buying up—it is said—the House of Peers at the time th+ Relisions Bill was being discussed, the matter was hushed up; but now the Atsumyites may be tempted ta disclose the details of the trans. sation while their laider is hors-de-combat and they beside thems-Ives with rage, The Final Touch.
Meanwhile the finishing touch has been given to the affairs by the offer of the old Tord Abbot to d miss his two mistresses if the Siingon believers pay elf the' debts of ths temple, which am unt to just three million yen!
8th September.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.