OBSTACLE TO VICTORY

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 83, 9 April 1934, Page 9

OBSTACLE TO VICTORY

REMOVED LIKE A SAMURAI

FIANCEE'S SAD STORY

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TOKIO, April S.

The late Jiro Satoh's fiancee Sanae Okada, aged twenty-one, a ranking woman tennis player, interviewed, said: "I believe that Jiro committed suicide solely from a sense of responsibility after acceding to tho Tennis Association's urgent request to him to proceed to Europe, even when he wanted to return from Singapore. Ho was still haunted with the fear that his illness would endanger Japan's chance of victory and removed himself like a Samurai of old. I hate them for obstinately forcing Jiro against his will and driving him to desperation and death. Satoh had stomach trouble and often said that he had already played for several years and did. not want, to play this year. He wanted to rest in quiet for the summer- in Japan happily with me. We intended to marry next spring."