CAST FOR EXECUTION.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 26, 29 March 1907, Page 7

CAST FOR EXECUTION.

Viscount Mayashi, the Japanese Am! assador, who recently left London to revisit his relatives and

friends for a brief spell, made the same trip under far more exciting circumstances as a far younger man. Me was a student at University College, and had almost finished his court e, when the great rebellion broke out in Japan. Returning home post-haste, he threw in his lot with the party making war against the Emperor—the party which lost—and was taken prisoner.

The future .Japanese Minister was, together with other rebels, confined in a wooden cage and grimly awaited his execution.

But the Emperor was in want of men who could speak English to go to England and America and there study the methods of those countries in order to impart them to Japan. His desire for the good of his land was stronger than his wish for revenge, and young Mayashi was brought out of the prison, not for execution, but to come back to England.