JAPANESE NAVAL SCANDAL

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1974, 3 February 1914, Page 7

JAPANESE NAVAL SCANDAL

.• :an arrest. *. . . ■By T«le6r&Bh*-Pr£i& Assocl^tion-'-Obprrishi . tdlijo, fobruary L Mr. Pooley, Router's- correspondent, lias been arrested.-. and liis domicile searched oh <Ift siCGaisatio.ft lift is involved, in tit© iiaval seandril. . This ha denies. ' ■ ■'■'

■ MRS. POQI/EY: SUMMONED. SENSATIONAL, DEVELOPMENT, (Ree, February 3, .0.20 a.m.) London, February 2. JVlr* jPo'ojfjy.j who is ac.e-u'scd of cftmpjtcity .in; the naval bribery scandal, is rigarously < confined (it is stated) in a room furiiisjiod with four mats, His wife was summoned, before the Public artcj later she was discoveiroi lying on tjio floor •of her house, wounded in tho'throat and with a razor and a revolver by her side.. : ■ Sho has been scut to thq hospital.

Charges hnve been made to the effect tiint JApaiftso iMV,aI officers received bribes froin cerkin <3entiaM afmameiit firms. Tjae nffait is likely to botome a political issue, of the- first magnitude in Japan, find, tlifeatens to shake tlie- Stinistry. The "Jr*llottr" Press has been malcilig' vicious pergonal attaejts; Th 6 i>rC' mier and the Minister «f Marias- repudi. flted the and promised, tho fullest inqUify, but- thete is a tfidespreed belief that Corruption "esisfe. ' '.