Tokyo, Feb. 13.
received yesterday a voluntary con-'The American Ambassador here tribution of the Japanese people: amounting to ¥.32,000 as compensation for the American gunboat Panay, which was sunk by Japanese bombs, according to an official report. It pointed out that this sum has been contributed by poorer people and school children—Trans-Ocean.
Tokyo, Feb. 11.
Three hundred thousand Japanese, jueluding "180,000 political offenders. have been reinstated to ful citizens by an Imperial Amnesty issued to-day the occasion Empire Day which marks the 2506th anniversary of the! Recession of Emperor dim mu, Japan's first Ruler, and the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution.
Death sentences' have been commuted to life sentences, while life sertenees have Ween commuted to im-
Prisonmentor_penal servitude for Twenty years. Those already serving UUme have had their terms commuted half the original sentences.
The former Capt. Itaro Yamaguchi and sbx other leaders of the revolt in Tokyo on February 26, 1990, have had their Life sentences" commuted "{0 twenty years" imprisonment, while the former Naval Sub-Lieutenant Kiyoshi Koga and three other naval ofoers, who were involved in the assassinay tion of the then Premier, Baron Tnukal, and other crimes in the terroust demonstration on Atay 15, 1992, have had the remainder of' their sentences commuted by one quarter, An Army order announces the cancellation, from. to-day, of "an Army order of punishment issued connection with offences committed previous to February, 11 Jin favour of those who have altéady been punished or who are still under punishment, or whose "punishment hasbeen exempted, postponed, sus ended or otherwise not executed, This order, it is believed, includes soldiers punished for infractions of iseipline in China,
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