News of these murders has been suppressed for over a month, and, so far as Japan and Korea are concerned, publication of anything relating to the manner in which other innocent persons, including people of Chinese nationality and Koreans, were made the victims of mob violence on the part of the Vigilantes being still Torvidden. It 18 open to grave doubt whether these murders will ever be investigated, especially in view of the fact that a movement has been started aiming at the condonation of the murders already committed, which are de-tended by the apologists for murder committed secretly by those who should have been the guardians of the law, as having been prompted by patriotism in desiring to rid the state of alleged lawless characters, though why gross brutality and deep secrecy should have been resorted to when such people were already in the hands of the police is dufieult to see. It is gratifying to note that the press of Japan has treated surder not as a fine art but as murder, though whether the Fourth ate can correct the. woodenheadedness of police and military here is open to grave doubt.
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