Tokio, Nov. 9.
The announcement has been made that the Judges concerned have decided to proceed with a public hearing in the Supreme Court in regard to the plot against the Emperor by Denjiro Kowtoku, who visited San Francisco in 1905, organized a socialistic and revolutionary party and later engaged in anarchistic propaganda and demonstrations in Japan, Twenty-five others, including one woman, implicated.
That the conspirators will be sentenced to death is a foregone conclusion among the Japanese public.
This constitutes the first official admission of the trath of the report that a plot, having for its object the assassination of the Emperor of Japan, had been discovered. On September 21 the Tokio correspondent of Reater's Agency sent a telegram to London tating that the ' Hochi Shimbun" reported that " number of Japanees had been arrested on a charge of cov- 5 piracy against the life of the Emperor avd would be tried by " special secret, Court. It wee understood, continued the " Hochi," that the most rigid censorship bad prevailed to prevent the abl ing about the plot until that evening. The Emperor was to have been assassinated while visiting the Military School jast outside th capital, The correspondent added that the fact that there were then io gaol several of the most active spirit of the Allied Bocialist movement made the assertions of the " Hochi" plausible. On September 25 the Tokio correspondent of The Times" telegraphed reporting that "a handful of thooghtmisled by apar-tempted recently to organize conspiracy of @ grave natare, but before their preparations were watare they were discovered and prosecuted." added that prelimiomy examination was proceeding and that the namber of N' the conspirators was not believed to be considerable, The mentions one "Shi being one of founders of the socialistic movement la Japan and thi may be the person referred to in the
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