The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-29
SLAIN PREMIER ALIVE, SAVED BY
HIS BR0THER-IN-LAW'S SACRIFICE:
0UTWITTED TOKYO REBELS YIELD
0kada Still at Head OF
Government, Revolt of
Army at End.
MARTIAL LAW RELAXED
Fate of Rebels Leaders
Unknown; War Minister
May End Life.
BY RAY G. MARSHALL
fConvrirht IQ36 nv Irnited press,

tCopyright, 1886. by United Press)
TOKYO, Feb. 29.-Japan's
revolt of a handful of young
army officers and 900 of their
men came to it's end tonight
an end that in more formal
drama would not have been
conceivable.
Enlisted men surrendered
in groups in obedience to a
solemn personal order from
their emperor, descendant of
the "Sun Cod"
The fate of the officers was not
Immediately known.
AS the revolt collapsed, two of
the statesmen among the five an
nounced officially as executed" by
the rebels for their liberalism came
suddenly to life.
Admiral Keisuke Okada, prime
minister, escaped when his brother
-in-law Col. Matsuo, sacrificed him.
self to the rebel firing squad in the
Snow-covered garden of the official
prime ministry residence.
Still Is Prime Minister
Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, grand
chamberlain of the imperial court.
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severely but not killed by the men
who went to his home to shoot him.
Late tonight Admiral Okada was
at the imperial palace comforting
with Emperor Tirohito.
He was prime minister again-of-
ficially "still"-after the country had
mourned him for 31a days.
1t was disclosed that, after an act
ing prime minister had been named
| in his pace because he was believed
dead, he went to the palace to see
the Emperor. The acting premier's
commission was cancelled at once.
though news that Admiral Okada
was alive was kept secret.
Fate Is Mystery
The mystery attaching to the fate
of the rebel officers caused excited
speculation with its resulting ru-
mors-that they had been shot,
that they had killed themselves,
that they had been captured, that
they still held out in some building
under the guns of regular troops.
If alive they faced either sep
puku, the honorable suicide" by
disembowelment with a ceremonial
sword, in the traditional manner,
or trial by court-martial in which
they would have the opportunity
to speak for hours or days, explain
ing to the nation and particularly
to their army comrades that they
revolted only in pursuit of an ideal,
to restore the purity of army tradi-
ton, to offset the invasion of vest
ern ideas which they saw as sap
ping the martial spirit of Japan,
There was speculation also as to
brief statement issued by Lieut..
Gen. Yoshiyuki Kawashima, min
lister of war.
He said that he felt heavy per-
sonal responsibility for the revolt
because the entire army did not re-
spond to his orders.
Such a feeling of responsibility,
in Japan. often is followed by the
honorable suicide unless the SUBJ
ject's associates can dissuade him
and convince him that his course
was above reproach.
1t was pointed out at once, as
regards Gen. Kawashima, that the
rebels-the enlisted men them
selves-stayed with their young Of
ficers in defiance OF orders of their
Superiors.
Only when the emperor sent his
own personal order to the men to
return to barracks did they leave.
IN groups, one after another, the
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