Some weeks ago, the Police conducted a spectacular raid of all the homes of alleged Communists and Socialists in Tokio, put them all behind prison bars and then, in a dramatic note to the press, announced that they had unearthed a conspiracy so terrible that "the nation will be shocked to learn of the details." People in the know of things shook their heads doubtfully, for the methods of the Japanese police are sometimes so akin to the system attributed to the Russian cheka, especially when it' comegs- to the
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