The next scone in this strange and asinine drama staged at the instance of the police saw all the chief participants in the Tokio District Court. Four accusations were made against Mr. Andrews:—(1) Violation of the navigation laws of Japan; (2) operating a motor-boat without a licence; (3) operating a motor-boat without a proper crew; and (4) entering fortified zone without permission. To the first three charges, which are merely technical, Mr. Andrews pleaded guilty. With regard to the last charge, which virtually means that Mr. Andrews is accused of being a spy, he entered an emphatic plea of "not guilty' and politbed out that he had a licensed apanese captain driving the boat and if the craft had entered a for-hidden zone, it was without his knowledge. The Judge then told Mr. Andrews that the fourth charge was a criminal offence and that the Court had power to hold him in gaol until the trial was concluded, but owing to his recognized high standing amongst the foreign community of Japan, he would be permitted to return to his home if he assured the Court that he would attend its sessions at 1.30 p.m. next day.
The Tokio press has not lost the spy-and-war bogey opportunity that this latest campaign of the police against foreigners in Japan has let loose, and has mobilized its biggest and boldest type for the occasion. All sorts of wild stories are afloat, that several foreigners, including Englishman and an Indian "discovered to be well-known British spies," and several Japanese are implicated "in an extensive plot," and the press promises its readers "wonderful revelations soon.""
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