TWO DEATHS
NANKING BANQUET
POISONED WINE BLAMED
(Received June 13, 12.10 p.m.)
TOKIO, June 12,
The Foreign. Office announces that two employees of the Japanese Consulate at Nanking have died, apparently as a result of drinking poisoned wine at the banquet at Nanking yesterday.
A Shanghai cablegram published yesterday stated:—-Prompt medical attention saved the lives of 25 high officials of the Nanking Puppet Government, including the Premier, Liang Hungchih, and also the Japanese Foreign Vice-Minister, Tomasaburo Shimizu, after drinking poisoned wine at a banquet. One suspect has been arrested.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 137, 13 June 1939, Page 9
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89TWO DEATHS Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 137, 13 June 1939, Page 9
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