per cla gare vista fo aot ae Sch General Araki, Minister of War, reported. the "sentences. passed by the court-martial toa meeting of the cabinet this: morning, Ab the same meeting Admiral Onumi,'Minfater of the Navy, a figured his colleagues that discipline frag well matutined "inthe ay: Alssatisfaetion among naval sub ough some Newspapers. report
terms over the death sentence. demanded by the procurator of the naval court for three of the ten naval subalterns who were leade the incident of May 18 last ye Spirit of the Dead May 15 last when the Premie assassinated and bombs were thrown into the residence of the Keeper of the Privy Seal, Metropolitan Police Board, the headquarters of the several power part of a demonstration by cadets against the London and Washington Treaties
have played fully as important a 'Th of the dead appear to] pare ab the teachings of the living in inspiring the actions of the young ten concerned. 'This impression given by the evidence brought. to Hight. in' the course of the court, martials, The "ghostly influences" mentioned by. the defendants included Lieutenant Araki, who committed suicide at Nanking in March, 1927, to atone for the "disgrace" of having been disarmed with his men when the Nationalist troops. were prelude: It-Cmde. " Kusakiel, uring into the city. They also who! committed suicide in the summer of 1980 as a protest against the London Naval Treaty, which he considered gave Japan too small a ratio for the requirements of National defence, and thirdly, Cmdr. Pui, naval officer of the ultra-nationalist school, who during the Sino-Japanese fat Shanghai last year.
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