SENSATIONAL RAID
JAPANESE RELIGIOUS SECT DISTURBED
POLICE SEIZE TREASURE AND AMMUNITION
By Telegraph— -Press Association—Copyright
(Rec. May 12, 1.30 a.m.)
Tokio, May 10.
News was released to-day of a sensational raid made on February 12 on the headquarters of a religious sect called Omotokyo, resulting in the arrest of its leaders and the seizure of several millions’ worth of gold and silver coins, and quantities of arms and ammunition. The prisoners, who include a former admiral, and the editor of a. largo Osaka daily newspaper, are held on charges of lose majeste, also of issuing secret publications involving the safety of the State.
The Omotokyo headquarters are in a small town near Kyoto. Two hundred police from Kyoto descended on the place, surrounding a temple during a religious celebration. They seized a goil from the altar, despite the horror of the assembled worshippea's, and destroyed the image. “lie police then searched the vaults under the temple, discovering treasure, .arms, and tons of literature. News of The arrests was suppressed for fear of its possible effects upon the minds of many thousands of Omotokyo followers throughout ‘the country—Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 194, 12 May 1921, Page 5
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187SENSATIONAL RAID Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 194, 12 May 1921, Page 5
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