READY FOR DEATH
JAPANESE STATESMAN LEAVES
for home.
assassination anticipated.
(H.P.A. by Elec, Tel. Copyright) (Received Jan. 15, 6.30 pjrtr,) LONDON, ian! -14. Mr. Yukio Ozaki, aged 70 years, formerly a member of the Japanese Cabinet, has left London for japan, says the Daily Herald, knowing that assassination awaits him, be« cause many of hjs countrymen corn sider his speeches in America * anil Britain were unpatriotic. He has' written his son in Japan stating: ‘As more Japanese statesman die violent than natural deaths*, anyone claiming to be a first-class public man must be prepared for a tragic end. i have never forgotten mother’s instruction to meet death with a smile, if possible i should like to die a death which will prove a lesson to posterity.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11834, 16 January 1933, Page 4
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