Nanking, Nov. 19.
Three staff members of the National Economic Council will shortly be dispatched to India, Ceylon, and Java to study methods' of tea planting, manufacturing, and mark learned here—Central Ne Tokyo, Nov. 22.
The prolonged trial of members of the Biooa Brotherhood on a charge of assassinating the late Finance Minister. Mr. J. Inouye, and Baron akuma'Dan, managing direc for of the vast" Mitsui interests, came to a close to-day.
In spite of the fact that the judi-clary nad received more than 300,- 000 "letters from every part 0. the country pleading for leniency, Nissho Inouye, "a priest and the ianatie leader of the super-reactionary oF~ ganization, and two of his" subordinates, sadashi Konuma and Goro Hishinuma, were sentenced to imprisonment for life, Other sentences were: Eiji Furuchi, Yoshitaka and Yoisumoso, _Afteen years each; Shohachiro, Tke Bukuro, fight years; Tarosuda, " Sukehiro Kukida, Kunio Tanaka and Toshiya Kitagura, six years each; Ken imori, Daiji Kurosawa and Takashi Hoshiko, four years each; and Hiroshito, three years, 'On the eve of the conclusion of the trial, a dramatic plea was nade by the' Abbott of the Ryutak Buddinut Temple, on behalf of his favourite disciple, the priest Nissho.
For just one month it procecde" smoothly, but on July 28 the court room was thrown into contusion, when Inouye suddenly rose te his feet ana started to hurl charges of Incompetency at the presiding judge and his assistant, while one of the other accused potinded the table with tea cup and made similar charges, Order having been temporarily. restored, the other defendants were questioned by the judge as to whether they also. challenged the court. All but three having replied in the affirmative, the trial. was adjourned amidst renewed duorder.
Defendants have decided not to
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