Written in Blood
TOKYO. More petitions written in blood, more tearsand more attacks on bureaucrats and senior statesmen, marked a session of tho trial of Lieutenant-Colonel Saburo Aizawa for tho murder last August of Lieutenant-General Totsuzan Nagata, director of the affairs bureau of the War Office.
Petitions for mercy writton in blood by two schoolgirls wore presented by Dr. Somei Uzawa, senior counsel for the military defence. The presiding officer of the court matrial, Major-General Seisaburo Sato, Toad them and handed them to the prisoner, who burst into tears. He had been in tears earlier as ho recalled how his father had taught him to revere the Emperor. Invited by tho prosecutor to explain his motive to his “heart’s content,” Colonel Aizawa declared he had considered General Nagata a source of evil in the army and had intended by assassinating him to support the throne in accomplishing a national “restoration.” At the same time Colonel Aizawa denied he was ‘‘a National Socialist.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 65, 18 March 1936, Page 2
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162Written in Blood Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 65, 18 March 1936, Page 2
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