JAPANESE BARON ASSASSINATED.
DOLLAR SPECULATIONS RESENTED. (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELBCTBIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) TOKYO, March 5. Baron Takuma Dan, general director of the Mitsui Company, was fatally shot at Niliombashi. The assassin was immediately arrested. The Mitsui building was recently mobbed by an indignant crowd resentful of the firm's dollar speculations since when the agitation against unpatriotic dollar-buying has continually increased. Baron Dan; who is well known abroad, headed several economic missions. [Baron Takuma Ban was born at Fukuoka in 1358. In his early youth he was sent to America for study by the Lord of Fukuoka and completed the Mining course at the Boston Technical Institute. For some years he was a teacher of English at Government schools in Japan. Later he was appointed technical official at the State Meteorological Observatory, and next at the Muke coal-mine, with the purchase of which by the Mitsui Company he joined the«firin.]
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20489, 7 March 1932, Page 9
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149JAPANESE BARON ASSASSINATED. Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20489, 7 March 1932, Page 9
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