terday to more than 40 governors prefectures who hava been sum-the course of a speech delivered inoned to Tokyo, Premier Tanaka alluded to the spread of radicalism Japan and declared-that the recent] Communist plot is. still under investigation by the judicial officials and that he himeelf was mot as yet in possession of the full details.
As regards punishnient of the perpeteators of the plot, the Premier said that the Government intended to take the most drastic action. Tf, therefore, the revised law is" promulgated by an urgent Imperial Ordinance which will make plotting against the State punishable by death, then such of the ring-leaders fs are now in police custody may, expiate their offence on the scaffold. The recent attack on Baron Tanaka, himself, and the attack made last month in Formosa on Prince Kuni father of the Empress, must have undoubtedly given strength to the Goverfiment design to revise the Peace Preservation Law. and to introduce the penalty of. capital punishment for certain political offences. It is a foregone conclusion! thee the Privy Council will endorse] the Cabinet's decision and secure promulgation of the revised Peace Preservation "Law through the medium of an Emergency Imperial Ordinance, New Law by the Privy Council Tokyo, June 28, After a prolonged and heated debate the Privy Council, by 13 votes to 5, to-day passed the Peace Preservation Law as recently revised by the 'Cabinet, when the necessity of nipping in' the bud all communistic intrigues waa em-Phasized.
Te is "expected that an urgent Imperial Ordinance sanctioning: the revision will be issued to-morrow.
Henceforth persons organizing. of leading secret associations aiming tata change in the fundamental constitution of Japan will be liable to capital punishment, while other members of such associations will be Tiable to a minimum of two years' penal servitude, Persons forming or joining secret associations aiming at the destruction of the private property ownership system are linble to a minimum of ten years? imprisonment—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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