Tokyo, July 12.
Fitteen of the seventeen con-viered leaders of the military mutiny of February 26 paid the supreme penalty to-day, the War OMice announced in a brief communique. Included were thirteen, ofoers and two civilians, and all were deprived of their' mili and Court rank before the exeeution—Domel, Tokyo, July 12.
understood "that, since dawn, the condemned men faced ting squads at hourly intervals in the military prison in Tokyo. The rebels involved were all between the ages of 23 and 27. =Reuter, Yashunel Kiyohara and Kiniiro Su-'From the beginning, the proceed ings wore secret and no general list of defendants was published. The area of the Yoyogi parade grounds In never open to the public and a ttlal could be conducted without exciting the least suspicion. However, as the trial neared its close, it became known that many minor officers were accused of participation in the rebellion which took the lives of group of high oMeiats, and resulted the wounding of others and tempts on the lives of still other Strategle Points Occupied What has become known as the February 20 incident took place at] 5 clock in the morning during heavy" snowstorm. AN midnight, orders had been issued to certain companies In the troops stationed at Tokyo to be ready for further orders.
Tu the early hours of the morning, Captain Ando and a few of his nse fociates Jed the troops, about 1400 number, to all strategic placag in the city. took possession of 2 Army offices, police headquarters and other strategic points, Simultaneously, small. detachments, some with machine-guns, others with pistols and rifles, went to the resi donees of certain high official killed or attempted to kill them. Those killed were Jyotaro Watanabe, ation; and the Premier, Who wan the intended Those Injured were:
Count Nobuaki Makino, f Keeper of the Privy' Seal, who escaped, she lets irom hie sum=
There marked for assassination, a: disclosed later, but who escaped, Prince Saionji, the last of the Genro: Baron Kishichiro Okura: Mr. Selhin Ikeda, of the Mfitsul Ca; and "The Premier, Admiral Okada.
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