UNREST IN JAPAN
MILITARY WANT CONTROL San Francisco Press Broadcast TOKIO, May 18. A widespread plot to discredit the Government, wreck industry, and hamper police efforts to restore order was revealed here to-day as militarist circles demanded control of the Cabinet and refused to participate in a political Ministry. Japanese police are now rounding up inembers of these mysterious patrtn i C organisations accused of complicity in a plot to cripple Tokio’s electrical and wMcr power systems in c< i nivanoe with the militarists who assassinated Prone er Ki Inukai. Gne of the organisations, knowi as the Farmers’ Sure Death Group, is known to have possessed grenades, with whicn Tokio’s electrical substations were unsuccessfully attacked. The military guards at the power plants threw hack the zealots, it was reported. The farmers’ group is also known to have htd sufficient funds to enable its suspectre members to escape to Manchuria. Police efforts to corral the members of the suspected organisations have been extended to Kobe, Yokohama, and all other ports.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 117, 20 May 1932, Page 7
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169UNREST IN JAPAN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 117, 20 May 1932, Page 7
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