Tokyo, Feb. 6. tenuous effort has been ie to lay the axe to the root the tree of power the military que of Japan have set up for themselves, To cut the tree down in a task that is at present impossible, but the effort to op off some of the branches first, preverting the tree from being' too top heavy, and later te pave the way for Inying vigorously at the roots, hhas_ been commenced.
The hero—for it is nothing less than heroic to do this sort of thing in Jnpan—is Dr. Hanoi; one of Japan's cutest Inwyers and a member of the Diet. His plan is to bring into vivid contrast the fuet that the military clique (this includes the Navy too) in Japan a sort of @ government within government, wheels within wheels, to arouse popular interest in the anomaly, and create a public opinion so strong that the mili tarists. will have to recede before the on-rushing tide of popular clamour,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.