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Show 'SUPERSTITION' USED TO GAIN VENGEANCE ToKlO July 1 The police of Ja-pan Ja-pan with their modern ideas have shattered another varj convenient '.superstition'" of thos who Wished td wrf.Jk vengeance on their enenUes It has Iwen the custom, when a person per-son did not do as his neighbors wished wish-ed him for a crowd of youths with a mikoshl or shrlno to parade the streets and when the shrine struck a house It waa taken as nn indication that the occupant had displf a-,.-d the gods Invariably If was found thai the houee struck was thai of somebody Who had displt-nsed tin . row d Recently Re-cently the resklt-n.e of n man who had failed to contribute to the fund for Kn.niln festival, was wrecked after being be-ing "struck by the mikoshl 1 Ths practical police arrested r,4 of th carriers car-riers of the Mikoshl oo |