Something inthe. nature of a sensation took place yesterday when the Metropolitan police made a sudden raid on the printing, plant of popular magazine and seized
pamphlet which was intended campaign ammunition. Tha said was nicely' timed, for the police apeared on the scene just as the las of the pamphlets was off the press and, on the ground that these. contained' an attack on the Govern ment in connection with Japan's fated Siberian expedition, took away every copy.
'The seizure of this literature is said seriously to have interfered with the campaign plans of the Opposition. A. protest has boon filed with the Home Minister and the Ministry, of Justice against the seizure, on' the ground that the pamphlet contained nothing' more nor Jess than what already had appeared in the newspapers and magazines relative to the alleged mysterious disappearance of certain Army funds during" the Siberian expedition, The police mai tain, however, that the language used was of an inflammable charac. ter and that the raid. was carrie out in accordance with Article 19 of the Press Law, which authorizes the seizure and confiscation of any publication containing matter th may be injurious to public moral peace, or order,
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