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Show Eight Japanese Sail Sea to Find De ath; Police Prevent Suicide of Five Others TOKIO, Feb. IT tfffl Eight men 1 and woman, members of a fanatical fanati-cal Japanese sulcid league, sailed toward death In Tokio bay today with a frantic police searching party on their trail. Five of their comrades in the "Let's Di league" war being treated forcibly in Toklo hospitals after attempting hara-kiri (death by dtsembowelment) In an effort "to purify" the powerful nichlren proletarian buddhlst sect Vigilant police disrupted th attempt at-tempt of four would-be suicide as they kneeled before publie building and plunged daggers into their abdomens. All wer seized and hurried to hospitals before they succeeded la inflicting inflict-ing fatal wounds. A fifth) league member, slightly wounded, was discovered biding in the home ministry. The public hara-kiri attempts occurred before the metropolitan police headquarters, the foreign minister's official residence, before be-fore the diet building and th main entrance to Emperor Hlro-hlto's Hlro-hlto's palace. |