Show RAFT CRAfT IN HIGH PLACES IN JAPAN Upheavals in Ministry to Result on Exposures in iii Sugar Scandal TOKIO Monday April 19 Day Day by day the scope of what is now known as the sugar sugar scandal increases and the arm of the law is being stretched into places high and low to arrest and expose expose ex ex- pose those responsible for the most gigantic gigantic gi gi- gi- gi gantic irregularities ever unearthed In ill Japan Aroused by public sentiment the government authorities are leaving no stone unturned and show no mercy in the exposure One member ber of parliament after another another an an- other is placed un under r arrest The Tho Constitutional Constitutional Con Con- party part which carried everything every every- thing before it in th the last Jast seli sessiOn n of t the r. r diet has been the sufferer and will find it extremely difficult to rally under the blow There have been arrested so o far twenty twenty twenty ty members of parliament and six directors lectors lec tors of the company A determined effort has been made mado for forthe forthe forthe the last two sessions of th the diet to na nationalize na- na the sugar company that company that is to say to 10 get et the tho government to take it over from the stockholders It appears from confessions alleged to have haYD been made by hy arrested directors that to brin bring this about a sum stint of was spent in bribery and the names Dames of some fifty members of is understood have ha been beeD mentioned in this connection Even Eyen the upper house suffered a certain loss of prestige The charges against the directors arc are fraud falsi falsification of private documents and disgracing ing their offices Amon Among other othro things dividends were not paid pail out of legitimate funds but were dis distributed di- di d for the sake of throwing t value of the stol stock to b benefit eit J JA i A large laige number of of foreigners rs l p j soon money ey The whole hole thing however has ba l brought about a somewhat hopeful J condition condition con cnn in Japan where hitherto the loose conduct rt of business in which the public was invited to invest est was was was' not Dot considered as much a a. a reproach i upon reputations of m ti of t high bight standing asis ns as is the case ase in western countries This last development has involved ed so 50 many f foreigners ers as lYe well as Japanese that the widespread publicity and the outcry of the foreigners is likely to to have an m cx ex exceedingly The newspapers of Japan of-Japan Japan are JOu loud in inthe inthe the praise of the action of the government government govern govern- ment in arresting the tho offenders |