Tokio, Oct. 5.
Despite the prevalence of a virulent type of cholera in Japan, which, seems to be causing the authorities considerable concern, the police and minor judiciary have got hold of another scare and the majority of the Press has joined the minions of the law in declaiming through every font of type the average newspaper office possesses that. a "plot in which foreigners and Japanese are involved has been unearthed, the conspirators seeking to supply a certain country which intends to declare war on Japaa soon with maps and charts of fortified regions in this land." The term certain country" is a euphemism for the United States, and the avidity with which the press has laid hold of this fresh scare, shows that the war bogey is never quite lost sight of despite the Washington Conference. War talk may have been temporarily relegate ed to the background, but. it certainly has not been consigned to oblivion.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.