Tokyo, Dec. 8.
Hundreds of leaders and followers at the Omotokye sect, a powerful scudo-religious and. super-patriotic organization, were arrested early this norning in a series of lightning raids conducted by the Kyoto Prefectural and Tokyo Metropolitan Police.
Wanizaburo Deguchi, the head of the sect of 3,000,000 whose members all him "The Master." was also at~ ted In his home.at 'Matsuye in Shimane Prefecture, 'The sect was fotinded in 1802 by 2 woman, Naa Deguchi, whose teach-ngs were conveyed to' her followers in the "O-Fude-saki" sacred creed written with a brush while Deguchi was in a trance. When she died, Dnisabtiro Deguchi continued her work. In 1021 most of the leaders of the sect and many of its follower were arrested in a series of nation wide raids—Rengo.
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