Tokyo, Sept. 25.
Considerable interest is focussed a the public trial of General Hanzo amanashi on a charge of accept ing bribes while in office. The trial opened yesterday. General Yamanashi, a boyhood friend of the late "Premier General Tanaka, a former Minister of War and member of the Supreme War Council, was till very recently Governor-General of Korea. It was while he held this very important post that the alleged offence was said to have been committed, The court room was crowded and some 38 attorneys were in attendance. As General Yamanashi entered the court, a man forced his way towards the former Governor-General and struck him on the head with an umbrella at the same time denouncing him as a traitor. The assailant, who belonged to a reactionary association, was 1mmediately taken into custody.
The former official was dressed in formal Japanese clothes and was apparently quite at case. Yesterday's proceedings, however, had very little to do with the General himself, having been restricted to examination of T, Kawasaki, who alleged to have given the bribe, to that of General Yamanashi's secretary when the former was Governor-General of Korea, and to four other officials who served under General Yamanashi, Proceedings commenced with the Procurator-
General reading a paper describing the alleged crime, according to which General Yamanashi is said to have received Yen 50,090 from Mr, Kawasaki, a rice merchant of Tokyo, on the understanding that he would use his high position and power to secure for Kawasaki a monopolistic licence to establish a rice and bean exchange at the imshire, and more particularly East Lancashire, is bound to benefit. If; the Government succeeds in coming to an understanding with the Indian people, and Lancashire will orga ize, it' will make all the difference between adversity and prosperity. Various mills in Lancashire are now being re-opened.
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