In connexion with the alleged Ansreliists lately before a special Court in Japan the Mainichi Dempo" reports that anonymous letters greatly sympatbisiog with the snatchists were received by counsel for the accused. The letters were posted at Naniws, Osaka. The paper says that many sympathisers with Kotoka and his fellow anarchists are to be found in the country. This is dae to the fact that the real state of the affair, says the "Dempo," is not known to country folks owing to the snthorities maintaining secrecy. They seem to believe that the Anarchists were induced to attempt the horrible crime of the Government whose aay with the free-thicker once for all The " Jiji Shimpo" has published letter which was recently sent by Kotoko, the leader of the Socialists, to certain friend of his, The message contains fragmentary allusions and is somewhat disconnected, According to the " Japan Herald's" translation, the letter rans somewhat as follows "Thank you for your letter of the 29th, There seems to be something great about my mother; I esonot bat wonder how she could have gi "birth toa fool like me. They say that the more stupid one's child is the more tenderly attached one is to the child. She mast be suffering intense agony, though she does not express it in tears. Lam afraid she mast have grown ill after she went home, She is seventy unals. years old now, and it distresses me much panese when I reflect how many years of life I must have robbed from her remaining years.
The manosoript I have written in the bands of Tameko San; it is however, " deformed child, promatarely born, Ite pages are too few, and it mill be bard to made it an adult book.
Please select thick paper or such type as may gloze over those defects. To see the manuscript printed in book form is the only pleasure I can look forward to ander my present cireamstances. You who is watching with plessare the development of his own illegitimate child which he had deserted at the threshold of " benevolent person has kindly picked it op and is nursing "The three-mat room am now in is jenvitoned with fourteen wooden pillars of five inches equate, showing where branches [and While I sit io a deep reverie methinks they stretch forth their loxariant branches and twigs from the notches and I feel as if I wore dwelling forest glade.
"These plants instead of serving as pillars and beams of palaces are doomed to parish in a prison cell. Why I know not, "Aa I indulge in sach reveries I perceive no difference between living in forest glades and a dapgeon. It is, perhaps, " little more comfortable to well bere—becanse there is a fatami to sit on—than on the cold rock under a canopy of trees."
The manuscript referred to was that mich Kotoka was writing previous to his arrest and which be had completed while in prison. This letter was dated December 6,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.