6,000 Men Reported Willing To Go Over to Japanese Nanking, Apr. 2. donment of a corpse.
Penal, servitüdé of from two to twelve years was asked for Futami's alleged accomplices.
The suspects were arrested in 1935 on a charge of plotting to dynamite the directors home and the plant of u Tokyo factory curing a strike. Severe police examination is said to have resulted in a confess they had shot and killed Junzo Shitehara, member of an anarchistic and c munistic organization in the suburbs of Kobe in October, 1935, leaving the body in the woods behind the famous Nunobiki waterfall.
The group is also said to [ave admitted an attempt to rob the Takada Agricultural and Industrial Bank in Tokyo, two Tokyo branch post offices und another in Kobe, in order to secure funds for the reorganization of the Japanese Communist Party after its dissolution by the Home Office.
Would Shou! r Entire Guilt Toshio Futami, one-time chairman of the central executive committee of the now-crushed Communist-Anarchist Party of Japan, whose death by hanging was demanded by the at the opening session of the trial, wanted to shoulder the entire guilt, and pleaded for leniency on behalf of his 18 co-defendants.
Following Futami's plea, several of his ce-defendants came to fis sup-
Gen. Li Yen-po, Vice-Commander of the Second Route Army of the Chinese fifth war district, and his 6,000 officers and men have offered to surrender to the Commander of the Japanese garrison at Yanchow on the north bank of the Yangtze opposite Chinkiang, military authorities here declared yesterday.
Armed with 4,500 rifles, 15 machineguns and a quantity of ammunition, the Chinese forces under Gen. Li have been active in the vicinity of Hwaiyin in northern Kiangsu, Japanese military authorities in Central China decided to notify Gen. Li of their formal acceptance of the sur-
Tr is a tribute to the retiring nature of Mr. Frank Chamberlain, the Prime Minister's only son, that until his fame was reported in connection with the Tralee bomb outrage many people were unaware that the Pre-port, urging that his life be spar.d. Sentences will be passed scme time this month or in May.
Besides Futami, the others on trial, and the sentences demanded against them, are Shinichi Inoue, 25, imprisonment Hisao Aizawa, 32, for 10 imprisonment years; Teibun Nomura, 37, seven years in prison Hiroshi Me, 33, and Minory Terao, 96, five years Ginichiro Tsubota, 33, four years Go Mitsu, 27, Takeshi Hasegawa, 29, Etutaro Ito, 29, Shigeo Zalokoro, 33, and Eiji Umemoto, 36, three years Miss Tokuno Asakura, 33, Masao Onishi, 29, Ri Te-jun, 81, Shinji Ota. 36, Tsuyoshi Mitsui, 25, and Yasuji Yamaguchi, 32, two years.—Reuter the plug into the, wrong hole m the air instead mier even had a son. Mr. Chamberlain, Jur whose Christian names are New Japanese Naval Francis Neville, is a metal salesman at the
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