The charges of being a spy for the American Government centre round Mr. R. M. Andrews, chief partner of the Andrews & George Ca., one of the largest foreign mercantile firms in lakie. Mr. Andrews, who is now getting on in years, has spent nearly a quarter of a century in Japan, has all his property invested in this country, and it was a well-known fact that both Mrs. Andrews and he intended to spend the rest of their lives in Japan. During this long period, not the semblance of an allegation similar to the one just made has been preferred against the veteran foreign businessman. Mr. Andrews himself is painfully shocked and astonished that charges of so repulsive a nature could be preferred against him.
The manner in which the police, accompanied by two judges of the District Court, are alleged to have carried out the raids on the office of Mr. Andrews, situated on the Ginza, one of Tokio's most important' thoroughfares, and on his house in Shiba Park, would have done credit to the director of a movie-picture "stunt." The subordinate Japanese official, especially of the police, has a queer predilection for display and ostentation, mixed with arrogance, which he regards as_ bolstering up his authority. None of these were lost in the making of the raids, and the crowds that gathered both at the home and the place of business belonging to Mr. Andrews were treated to a rare exhibition of ridiculous pomposity. The thing
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