Lieutenant Mikamé's charges, made some time ago, to the effect that, during their tenure of office as Ministers of War (General Baron Tanaka also was a former War Minister) the two generals misappropriated funds belonging to what is known as the "military secret service" and that, during the Siberian Expedition, the controlling factors in which were these same two generals, official money, gold and other valuables, amount-forces. The greater part of this money too has disappeared, and the allegation is that it found its way into the pockets of General Tanaka and General Yamanishi, When Lieutenant Mikamé first made his charge against General Tanaka, through the medium of the press, the latter designated the whole thing as a "political coney,", and then, delving into Mikamé's "past, disclosed that Mikamé had served a term in prison for petty larceny, and that, therefore,.his evidence could not be trusted. Mikamé, however, showed some Tokyo papers certain, documents he possesses, and the Tokyo press said it would have to believe Mikamé, gaol-bird or no gaol-bird, until' General Tanaka produced' better evidence in support of his dement Mikamé thereupon played another card. He challenged General Tanaka to meet him and his lawyer, when, he said, he would produce evidence that could not be 0 easily explained away. Mikamé that he served a sentence in but contends that this was a miscarriage of justice. The rendezvous appointed for the meeting was the Imperial Hotel. Mikamé, his lawyer and a host of newspaper men were there, but xno sign of General Tanaka or any representative of the General's.
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