SENSATIONAL PLOT IN JAPAN
1 ■ fr-f 1 " ■ BOMBING OP CABINET DETAILS REVEALED AFTER TWO YEARS TOKYO, September 16. Details of a remarkable plot in 1933 to murder a number of prominent men, including Count Ikki and Baron Yamomoto, were revealed when the censor's ban was removed. Sixty-three of the pcrtfcipants were arrested when they assembled at a shrine to pray for the success of the coup d'etat, the signal for which was to be the bombing of a meeting of the Cabinet from an aeroplane. "then the conspirators were to raid the homes of the intended victims and murder them. Fifty-four of the accused have now * been committed for trial for insurrection. Five others have been charged with attempted murder and arson.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21581, 18 September 1935, Page 13
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