SLAIN WITH SWORD
POLITICIAN MURDERED IN TOKYO Yamamoto Senji, one of the two members of the now proscribed Radical Party, elected to the Diet, was murdered recently in an hotel at Tokyo. At 9 o’clock a visitor sent up hi* name, seeking an interview, which Yamamoto declined. The visitor per. slsted at the bedroom door, and Varna, moto admitted him. The stranger presented a writen demand for Yamamoto to resign from the Diet. The men discussed the matter for 20 minutes, after which the visitor produced a short sword and attacked Yamamoto. In the struggle the stranger thrust the sword through Yamamoto a heart. The murderer surrendered to the police. He is an obscure patriotic journalist. The crime is typical of the danger of Japanese politics, such desperate deeds being always sure of extended admiration.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 620, 23 March 1929, Page 26
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135SLAIN WITH SWORD Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 620, 23 March 1929, Page 26
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