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Japanese politicians, more fearful than ever of a military coup d'etat, tried to save the Empire's parliamentary system last week by yielding abjectly to War Minister Sadao Araki, reshuffling some Cabinet posts at the military clique's behest, appropriating all the money demanded by the fighting services and nastily adjourning the Diet before worse should befall. The Opposition (Minseito) Party, not daring to oppose, wailed a public prediction through the lips of Deputy Gotaro Ogawa that Japan's occupation of Manchuria will soon have cost 300,000,000 yen ($100,000,000 current rate)?a vast...
...next revealed that Dr. Dan had been one of the Japanese financiers who recently called War Minister Araki on the carpet and cautioned him about Shanghai spendings. The assassin's pistol proved to be a Browning (Japanese navy type) exactly similar to the Browning which killed Japan's No. 2 Peace Man Inouye. The assassin of that third Peace Man who was the first to fall, Premier Hamaguchi, had not been brought to trial up to last week, his case having been delayed 16 months...
...Japanese have already strained the Empire's fiscal resources by pouring $35,000,000 into the Shanghai expedition alone. Last week big Japanese bankers called Japanese War Minister Lieut.-General Araki on the carpet and cautioned him as only big bankers can caution. The United Press got past the Japanese Government censor a dispatch intimating that Prince Saionji, the Elder Statesman upon whose advice the Emperor acts, was opposed to the Shanghai drive. Attitudes. Most powerful forces were therefore working inside Japan for peace, but not unimportant were the attitudes of the Great Powers. The U. S. Government...
Last week Lieutenant Araki reached Shanghai and reported to his Rear Admiral. Then he went to his cabin on the Japanese flagship, took pen and paper, wrote: "In order to insure the safety of Japanese residents at Nanking, I endured, from the Chinese, insults which no Japanese can tolerate. The lives of the Japanese refugees could be saved, but I am ashamed that the honor of the Japanese navy has been disgraced in my person...
Soon Lieutenant Araki composed himself for a night's sleep. At dawn, as the bugle blew for hoisting the Japanese ensign, he arose, mounted the bridge, faced the sun, as it rose over Japan, and shot himself...