LESE MAJESTE
SENSATIONAL RAID IN JAPAN. DANGEROUS RELIGIOUS SECT. Keuter’s Telegran, (Received May 12, 1.45 a.m.) TOKIO, Alay 10. News was released to-day of a sensational raid made on February 12th on the headquarters of the religious sect called Omotokyo, resulting in the arrest of tho leaders and the seizure of several million pounds worth of gold and silver coins and quantities of arms and ammunition. The prisoners, including a former admiral and the editor of a large Osaka daily newspaper, are held on charges of lese mojeste, also of issuing secret publications involving the safety of the State. The Omotokyo headquarters are in a small town near Kyoto, from which two hundred police from Kyoto descended, surrounding the temple during a religious celebration. They seized the god from the altar despite the horror of the assembled worshippers and destroyed the image. The police then searched the vaults under the temple, discovering treasure, arms, and tons of seditious Literature. News of the arrests was suppressed for fear of the effects upon the minds of many thousands of Omotokyo followers throughout the country.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10898, 12 May 1921, Page 6
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