JAPAN: Swords; Seducers; Spies

A leering Tokyo scanned with rare delight last week a juicy story about French missionaries. Seemingly with full Government approval, closely censored news-organs shrieked details so lurid as to be ludicrous. Lecherous French missionaries, it appeared, have been seducing Japanese girls. The jealousy of two such wenches with respect to their priest caused one of them to unmask him to the police. An entire priestly gang has been making "minute topographic surveys of the Japanese coast with tiny cameras," hiding the films in French missionary churches. To protect themselves against the just...

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