[Slaughtered to a Man: Two Ships Crews: Exploits of a Former College Graduate From Our Own Correspondent.
Tokio, Apr. hag been' following interest the. of one Entre, s, notorious Tapaneso pirate, and his Accom pices, which has justi been con~ cluded in the Tokio courts, "AN the accused have been found guilty, but sentences have not boon pronounced as yet, The trial which concluded: yesterday drops the curtain on and of the most sensational human tragedies that has occurred for many years in Japan, The Gira scone takes us back 1921 whist "Exure, a college graduate, believing thie vant fortunes were to be reaped from the fisheries off the Siberian Pactfio conat—especially with the Japanese fishing fects operating under the protection of tha guns of the Japanese Navy—abruptly terminated the prosaic caroer of clerk in a booking hous, gather about him a band of young mon thirsting for adventure snd, of course, for easily-made fortunes, and left en route to the fishing banks, Their veseol, however, was wrecked in the inland Sea'and the band was torved to return impoverished, Exure, however, managed to obtain from a Yokobamw merchant a loan of ¥, 90,000, saying that now his ambition hn turned from reaping a fortune in fish to securing a bigger fortune 1 gathering gold dust from the Tivers of the Siberian littoral, The merchant believed that there was more than a gam-Dler's chance in the venture, #0 gave Exuro the money. A $,000- ton ship, the Taikoo Meru, waa chartered and the. vessel sailed from Shibaura, Tokio, on September 1%, 1991 Eire, prior. 10 sailing, bought @ lntge amount of arms and food, the tale revealed in court by some of his subordinates who. turned King's evidence, stating that 92 rifles, 67 Japanese swords, 9,000 rounds of ammunition, 250 bat of rice, 370 bags of wheat, witly ample supplicn of drinking water were included, The crew of 37. whom Enure gathered about him wore excservico mon who swore solemn onthe to obey him unquestioning
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