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Show II GONSPiRAGV OF JAPS I OFFICIALLY GHAOGEO II Interesting' Ramifications fo, If Strike of Sugar Industry H Laborers in Hawaii. MM HONOLULU, .Time 11. Evidence of Bffj what tho authorities claim is a con- Kfcj certoil movement on f.lio part of the pfl Japanese of the Hawaiian jiroup to con- mv. trol the sugar industry and thus domi- KJj ".'Me the infernal affairs of the islands Hj through i heir mtinber and power, was WWi disclosed today when the offices of the I! "Ji.lif" n Japanese newspaper of Hon- Uj olulu, and the offices of the Japanese Wii Higher Wage association wore entered lil by officers armed with search-warrants II: and letters, nnd reports and other docu- Kk merits seized. It following the confiscation ot the pa-f pa-f vers the application for a writ of habeas corpus, entered in behalf of ! 'J Makino, Negoro and Soga, rho three fc ;.ileged leaders of the sugar plantation W sinkers, who wcro taken into custody J!' vesterday. was rejected bv the. court. J, It is claimed by the aut"lionties that : f the papers found indicate that a con-Si con-Si spiracy of a widespread nature has been ! jijj1 formed among the Japanese of the i islands to wrest control of affairs from the white residents and conduct the ijg. internal government in their own inter-S inter-S Chance for Demonstration. I The letters and reports found iu the IS.' office of the Higher Wage association, i which, as indicated by its name, has j the financial betterment of the Jap-jf; Jap-jf; auese laborers as its object, aro from members and agents of the asocation Jfj in various parts of the islands. They i'5J express the belief that the strike of lit the Japanese plantation workers offers fa an opportunity for the. Japanese of the hi islands, by virtue of their numbers, to demonstrate their power to control the It Hiigar industry, and, through it, tho I' general affairs of the islands. Ku' The determination to so control, it is m staled, is reiterated again and 'again R' in these documents. wn An appeal to all Japanese, in the name of their native country, to aid Ifcfl in this movement, is said to be cou-Bni cou-Bni vevo.d in the letters. Mt- The aiilhorities are preparing com-II com-II plelc translations of all the papers i seized and it is stated that they will B9 be used as evidence in support of many Raj charges of conspiracy, which it is do-Kg. do-Kg. dared will result from the disclosures. Eg. "While the court, was deliberating up-pjj. up-pjj. on the first habeas corpus pet.il ion. a CJij crowd of a thousand Japanese gathered Ml about, ill'1 courthouse to await the out-B out-B ronie. The gathering was perfectly or-KJ or-KJ dcrly in its deportment, but vented its Kfll spirit in cheers for the prisoners when-mft when-mft ever the rame in sight. Rjjl A second petition has been filed by Ifjj, the attorneys for tho prisoners, but Kb ' has not been acted upon by the court. Ej TJie strike, of the Japanese planta-K2; planta-K2; tion hands has been in progrress for F' over a month and is tho most extensive ii1 walkout ever known on the islands. Be-Bn Be-Bn twemi 5000 and S000 Japanoso aro in-Jty in-Jty volvcd. Tho strikers demand an in-g in-g crease from sixty-nine rents 1o $1 a iy: day for field laborers and a propor-Ijj propor-Ijj t innate advance for mill hands nnd Bi other plantation employees. |