DEATH OF MR. COX

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 7

DEATH OF MR. COX

OFFICER'S STORY

PLUNGE THROUGH WINDOW

TOKIO, July 30.

An authentic version of the Cox affair is that Mr. Cox was arrested in his beach cottage at Chigasaki, escorted to Tokio, and there imprisoned. The British Consul-General, Mr. R. L. Cowley, made an effort to see him but was refused an interview. Mrs. Cox delivered food and clothing to her husband on Saturday and Sunday, but was also prohibited from interviewing him.

Mr. Cowley yesterday afternoon arrived at the police headquarters and met Mrs. Cox running from the building and shouting "Jimmy's been hurt." Mr. Cowley entered under an escort and found Mr. Cox lying on a divan. A high-ranking officer said, "Come, I will show you what happened." The

officer went with Mr. Cowley to the third floor and explained that he had been questioning Mr. Cox there. "Mr. Cox walked about the room, drank some water, and then suddenly plunged through the window," the officer said. "We treated Mr. Cox very well because he was a foreigner, and we gave him the best attention of three medical officers."

The fall broke both legs and arms and injured his head. Injections restored consciousness, but he died en route to hospital.

The Ministry of Education is reported to be planning to replace 500 alien instructors with Japanese because of the "discovery of the British espionage network." Stricter supervision, it is stated, will be imposed on missionaries.