MURDER PLOT
AGAINST JAPANESE CABINET. SIXTY-THREE MEN ARRESTED. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.35 p.m.) Tokio, September 16. Details of a remarkable plot in 1933 to murder a number of prominent men, including Count Ikki and Baron Yamomoto, were revealed on the removal of the censor's ban. Sixty-three of the participants were arrested when they assembled at a shrine to pray for the success of the the coup d'etat, the signal for which was to be the bombing of a Cabinet meeting from an aeroplane, and then the conspirators were to raid the homes of intended victims and murder them.
Fifty-four of the accused have now been committed for trial for insurrection and five others have been charged with attempted murder and arson.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4747, 17 September 1935, Page 5
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121MURDER PLOT King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4747, 17 September 1935, Page 5
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