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FRISCO KID

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National Constitution, Laws

Disregarded

Tokyo, July 7.

Sixteen Army officers and a civilian have been sen- tenced to death, and five other officers have been given terms of life imprisonment for participation in the events of February 26, when several Army groups rebelled and assassinated several high government officials, it was an-- nounced to-day. The sentences followed weeks of pain. staking investigation and a trial surrounded by the great- est secrecy, conducted by a special court-presumably at the Yoyogi parade grounds.

In a 20,000-word statement, the war Ministry pre. sented the findings of the Court Martial on the motives of the rebels, and a summary of the case,'

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These tocluded, according to the communique, the elder and senior statesmen, the bureaucrats, leaders of the various military cliques, the political parties and the rich, who, the insurgents believed, were res- ponsible for the straitened eir- cumstances now confronting the nation.

"There Is ground for under- pire by overthrowing the privileged standing the pure sentiments of classes." concern for the fate of the ne- tion and the state of society at a time of national crisis held by officers, former officers and lead- Ing civilians among the accused," said the statement. "as there is also room for realization of the varlous etrcumstances that led some of the accused to take the actions

they were . with which charged.

"Their crimes," the statement

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"BLOOD BROTHERHOOD

CONSPIRACY

Such groups were also held guilty by the rebels of the alleged in- "However, they ran counter to fringement of the prerogative of Imperial commands in their acto, · Supreme command held by the followed a path contrary to rea-, Emperor because of the parts they son and "right, disregarded the na- are said to have played in obtain- Twelve nundred vigilantes in cional Constitution and the laws 10g Japan's signature to the Lon- Bowery waistcoats and top hats of the land and, moreover, imdon Naval Treaty, in spite of the black sombreros. gay frocks and paired 'the basic principles of the opposition to the pact of the naval rough mining clothes of another founding of the Aray by leading members of the Supreme Mill- generation, took possession of War into acts of rebellion by devious tary Council. ner Bros. studio for a night for means official troops which, under a scene in "Frisco Kid," now show→

no circumstances, should take au ing at the Star Theatre,

tion without Imperial command. Accompanied by their women- folk in hoop skirts and crinolines, the men came to carry out an old time California custom-that or hanging a couple of objectionable "TRAINED TO OBET citizens and putting the torch to

"A few of the non-commissioned a notoriaus den on Barbary Coast officers who were found guilty had The macabre scene is a high-organized into groups and staged light in "Frisco Kid." Four mo- an jarmed rebellion. These men tion picture cameras mounted on have been regarded as active par- scaffolding filmed the seething. ticipants in the rebellion, in con- howling mob as it overflowed rep-trast to others who reluctantly licas of several blocks of old San took part in the mutiny, having Francisco's waterfront. armed with ugly bayonetted rifles and lurid yellow torches.

goes on, "are indeed heavy and grave and therein lies the reason for the sentences passed.

The Court martial's ridings in- dicate that defendants were in- Auenced by the so-called "Blood Brotherhood Conspiracy," leading to the assassinations in the spring of 1932 of Mr. J. Inoue, Finance Minister, and of Mr. T. Dan, chalf- man of the board of trustees of the Mitsut Co.; the subsequent May 15 Incident when naval and mi- tary cadets murdered the then Premier, Mr. T. Inual, and the slaying, on Aug. 12 last year, of Lleut-Gen Nagata, by Lient. Col. Aizawa, 9.7 Associate of the cashiered officers who participated in the rebellida, into taking direct action to achieve their objectives. From December last, when it was first reported that the First' Army their sentences were made candi- Division would be sent to Man- lonal on their good behaviour. chokuo, to Feb. 26, the judges' re- "Those non-commissioned off-port read, the leaders of the re- cers and privates who joined the voit held five conferences, both in- rebels' ranks in the belief that they side and outside barracks. Civil could not disobey the command of an members of the plot aled par- their superiors were acquitted," the ticipated in these deliberations. statement said.

been trained to obey the commands of their superior officers.

"These reluctant rebels had no alternative but to obey their superior officers and are now deep-

A crew of several hundred elec- tricians, grips, property men, ward- robe and make-up workers, assist-iy repentant. For this reason, ant directors. were on the scene. But these were augmented by such a crowd of curious sightseers, the scene being taken in downtown Los Angeles, that police and firemen were called to keep order.

Shooting of the scene began at six o'clock in the evening and was not completed until four in the morning!

James Cagney heads the cast of this thrilling drama of the lawless

MOVE TO OVERTHROW PRIVILEGED

The official analysis of the causes

Early in the morning of Feb. 28, the judges declared, the rebel lead- éra mustered their menunder, errergency orders, and took them from their parracks announcing that they were going on a pilgrim

Boldier's

but picturesque days of San Fran- of the uprising declared that the cisco in the early '50's. Others leaders were motivated by "a keen age to the Melji Shrina and the include Margaret Lindsay, Ricardo realization of the necessity to Yasukuni Jinja, the Cortez, Lili Damita, Donald Woods, effect a national reform by drastic | Shrine. Barton MacLane, George E. Stone means so as to make manifest the true aspect of the Japanese Em- and Robert McWade.

"SANDERS OF THE RIVER"

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"Sanders of the River" is with- out doubt one of the most thrilling Alms which has ever been put on the screen,; just the original Sanders stories were as thrilling as anything which that master-thriller. Edgar Wallace, ever wrote. They were, in fact, Wallace's favourite stories, and he considered them his best although they were among his earliest,

the West Coast, in support of the Expeditionary column.

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Nevertheless, the atmosphere of the Niger Dalta and the slight contacts with the furtive ercek- dwellers fired Wallace's over- waterful imagination.

SIX-POINT PROGRAMME

On the eve of the outbreak, the leaders in the movement, the court Bald. received from "a Certain Kamekawa" the necessary Funds and decided on a plan of attack against Cabinet Ministers, elder and seller statesmen as well as Government "Institutions, which they intended to seize,

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sention among them prevented the agreement being carried out, with the exception of one who shot him- self at the Banno Hotel, the last stronghold or the mutineers. All the others were arrested, 1:|

OTHERS SENTENCED

Five officers, apart from those sentenced to death, were given life imprisonment and another was given four years' penal servitude..

Prison terms ranging from 18 months to 15 years were return- ed against 44 former non-com- missioned officers. Of this num-" ber, 27 sentences, providing for im prisonment for less than two years, were made conditional, for a term

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Edgar Wallace remained at the base, says Cotterell, and did not accompany the little force which disappeared into the dense forest in search of the city of brass and ivory, with its palace of an eboa

When their coup had been car- despot whose name was deathried out, the rebels intended, ac- over all that part of Africa.

cording to the judges, to follow a Human sacrifice was then

aixpoint programme. - everyday affair. Hundreds of Under this, they were to urge of three years. people were killed each year at the War Minister to "save the Three-year probationary the religious orgies of these situation" by effecting drastic re-tences, ranging between 18 months riatives.

forms; to arrest those whom the and two years, were given to three rebels held responsible for des privates. Five civilians were each troying military discipline": to given 15-year goal terms, while eliminate the leaders of the military another was sentenced to a ten cliques: to hold conferences with years' imprisonment. sympathizers from the provinces: Before passing sentences, the The RAM.C. Corporal saw the to hold Government buildings un-Court Martial examined the cases prisoners with their sharply fled til their demands had been as of one officer; 20 omeers deprived teeth and horrible trophies cepted and to prevent, at all costs, to their rank, two of whom com- dangling at their throats, fighting with other troops.mitted suicide before the trial; Later, however, when he became The court revealed that the in-three cadets; two-non-commission- a sperial correspondent for a sirgents, after the coup, had heldert officers; ⠀⠀ 89' - cashiered mon- newspaper, Wallace was sent into conversations with Gen, Y. Kawa. commissioned officers, 1.358 pri- the Congo ares at the time of the shima, Minister of War: Lieut. vates and ten civilians.in of Vigilante vengeance... trouble on the Belgian Congo Gen. M. Purushoo, Vice-Minister of Indictments were returned rubber plantations. Here, ac Wor: Gen. J. Mazaki, whose re-, against one officer; 18 cashiered cording to his own words, he ab-moval from the post of Inspector- officers; two non-commissioned sorbed "the sights and sounds as General of Military Education was officers; 33 cashlered non-com- blotting paper absorbs water held to be the primary cause for missioned officers; 19 privates and This, it you read your history * "How much has Warisce exag-the murder of Lieut-Gen. Nagata, ten civilians. books, was a reprisal for the gerated things?" asks Cotterell and others, but had failed to Isten tile marine is being forged by the treacherous assassination of "Was there a real Bosambo??

Captain Hisashi Kohno, Alr Britlah Ship Adoption Society's unarmed party of

to the persuasion of these military Force, who lead the attack upon eighteen The answer is that throughout leaders to return the rebel troops [, the residence of Count Nobuaki correspondence scheme, and It Is Englatinien.

his stories he keeps very closely to their barracks.

Makino, former Lord Keeper of the expacted that by Beptember near- But, according to P B. and very faithfully to the real When, however, an Imperial Privy Seal, shot himself at the ly 100 Scottish schools will be tak- Cotterell who was in the Nirerlan thing. Here and there he has order was lasted commanding the Atami Hospital on March 5, dying ing part. It is a curious fact that Political Service this was not the added a touch of Action and soldiers to return to their quar- the following day. the number of ships which have whole truth,

and nowhere call it be said that the teen, the inacters of, the rebellion. expressed a preference to be asso

bounds of possibility have been the judges A valuable educational link be- elated with, schools in Scotland is was a corporal in the Royal passed. There is the ring of truth to give us said, told their followers tween the secondary schools of likely to exceed the number of Army Medical Corps, part of a in every foot of the Banders Alm A suicide pact was entered into Britain and ships of the mèrtan- | schools available.

detachment which was landed on at the King's Theatre to-day. by the chief conspirators, but, dis

THE GREAT

MPERSONATION

SCOTTISH SCHOOLS

AND

'SHIP ADOPTION":

©(Special Air Mail Service)

London, June 29.

The reason for their suggestion of absolute authenticity which gives them their thrilling quality is not far to seek. Wallace wrote them from his own observation when, as a young man, he was working in central Africa. That is why his characters and atmos- phere are so real and vivid; even Wallace could not have drawn such obaractera after merely reading travel books :"A popular belief is that Wallace started on his Sanders series whilst serving with the puniliyo expedition of 1897 that ended with the capture of the mysterious -walled city of Benin

At that time, he says, Wallace

Mariial law clamped on the capital during the uprising to at

be lifted by the end of this month. in force although it is expected to

ZON.CDNĚ

In this sensationul screen-

FRISCO KID

With MARGARIT LINDSAY RICARDO CORTEZ LE DAMITE

RAY

LIBED

FRANCIS - HOWARD

“BRITISH AGENT

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