SCANDALS IN JAPAN.
BRIBED LEGISLATORS. ACTION OF THE SUGAR COMPANY. MANY ARRESTS. [IT TlLlGUiril — I'ItESS association—corTßlQUT-l (Rcc. May 10, 10,40 p.m.) Toklo, May 10. In connection with the sugar scandals in Tokio many arrests liavo been mado. The sugar company spent 120,000 yen in bribing fifty deputies to secure its nationalisation. It is improbable that'the Constitutional party, which controls the majority of the Diet, will rally from the blow. The public applaud the Government's energy,' and believe that the exposure will have a salutary effect in commercial circles. [A Tokio cablegram dated April 10 stated nine deputies of the Lower; House have been arrested on oharges of bribory. in connection with'tho Japan Sugar Company. The scandal caused a groat drop in shares, and many persons were ruined.] '
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19090511.2.36
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 504, 11 May 1909, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
127SCANDALS IN JAPAN. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 504, 11 May 1909, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in