DEATH PACT EN MASSE
Attempts at Pubiic Harakiri in Tokio A POLITICAL PROTEST (Received 18, 8.45 a.m.; TOKIO, Feb. 17. As a protest • against "rotten l'eligious and political circies," five yoiing mep belonging to the "Let Us Die League" caused a sdnsation in the city by trying to commit suicide by harakiri, some in front of the Imperial Pal&ce and others iti the Diet. It.is rfeported that 28 members of ihe league, ineluding several girls, entered a death pact to attract attention to the causO df freedom of conscience.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 29, 18 February 1937, Page 4
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