JAP. NAVAL SCANDALS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 167, 15 July 1914, Page 5

JAP. NAVAL SCANDALS.

I EUROPEANS SENTENCED. POOLEY GETS TWO YEARS. ! i Received 10.10 a.m. i i TOKYO, duly 14. ,] A- a result of tlie navy scandals, ■j Pooley was lined iIJOII sterling and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, while ' Hermann wm scnten.-ed tn a war. Hermann'- sentence was postponed lor i three year-. Moth arc appealing. ■ About ihe beginning of Uf: year ißinhter, an employee in Cc Tokyo office nf -Sie.mrn.) and .S-litikirl. cleciric.il en jgincr.rs. in. sentenced to i vv o years' im- ! prlMinme.it for stealing . nntideiuial doctimer..tj relating to ihe .1-a.panese I navy i.r.lcrs. Kit-liter offered to ecll tlie Idoi'uint-'ita io s'.\«nrenr« for i'i/iim. Cnun-j'.-el ela-ted thai! one lelier offered .1 high I A..'.mi rally official ">* per een: com 111 isjsion on all orders. Another showed that lo per cir.; vv.ii always allowed for I confidential payments. i>iouie.ii» and Cchukert. point ej out that all their r.ival htirlno.-w in Japan was dune through nival agents. ~11 couiiuit-sinn. They iliiiir-1 paying i-omm'iefc'ions. direct or ind-ii-fct. to Japanese ollicialc. Ri.hter'n al'j-mpt at .blackmail was immediately rc.jfnricd to the J.ip.nrcse (loverninenl. INioley. Keuler's coirespondcn't, wan later arrested, and his hom-v wile searched because of an accusation that he writj inv.ilveil in the naval scandals. ■Pooley denied llr." accusation. 11 tc* wife w.is summoned before the public proseciii.ir. 111111 later tuns discovered lying on 1 the Hopr ni' her liotlnw with a wound in 1 t-h-e l!|roal. A razor ami a revolver were 'Ijy her e-klc. She W:u3 taken to the • hospital I. •I