After the ban on publication of the affair was lifted last summer, Professor Soichi Sasaki, of the Kyoto Imperial University,—the Government institution to' which most of the arrested lads belonged, wer a lecture on the matter, partly to clear himself and this colleagues and pi the arrested youngster ture is bei magazine, entitled "Reconstruction, the magazine explaining that such is being done because of the great public demand for it.
He declared that the charges were based on the most flimsy evidence. One of the students, he Javers, had in his note-book certain excerpts from a work written dun ing the French Revolution, Thi was the only evidence the authorities could lay hold of and the young than is now languishing in prison under a charge of lose majesty. Other students were found'to be reading w book by Karl Marx. 'They were arrested and © charged "with attempting' to tamper with the eonsstitution.:" A professor: of the name lof Dr. Kawakami, belonging tothe Imperial University of Tokyo, was haled before the public procurator
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