The following is from the Japan Chronicle"—The trial of Kotoka and the twenty-five other Socialists under arrest on a charge of conspiring against the Imperial House is to be opened at the Special Court in the Court of Cassation on the 12th proximo. Judge Teura will preside over the proceedings, and Judges Shikata, Tsarami, Sayebiro, Okara, Tsanematso, and Endo will sit they rem different and quiet on the matter, whereas they should bring pressure to bear upon the Goverment the: Diet, and through the Press and every' other available means, to move the peuple to defend the new tariff law,
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