NO NEWS OF WIFE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19669, 11 December 1933, Page 10

NO NEWS OF WIFE

PROFESSOR O’CONROY FEARS JAPANESE VENGEANCE. LONDON. November 28. Professor O’Conroy, formerly of the Keio University, Japan, has asked the Foreign Office to make immediate inquiries, through the British Embassy in Tokio, regarding the safety of his wife. In October, Professor O’Conroy wrote a sensational book, “The Menace of Japan.” Shortly afterwards he expressed the fear that his wife, who had returned to Japan to collect data, had been poisoned. She had written to say that she had been in bed with severe internal pains. He had since been unable to communicate with her. Professor O’Conroy is in hospital on the verge of a nervous breakdown because of worry about his wife's safety, accentuated by semi-starvation due to his having sent so much of his money to his wife, hoping thereby to enable her to get to England before ffts book reached Japan. He says that his wife’s latest letter disclosed that the Japanese newspapers were full of cabled extracts from his book, and that crowds were collecting around her house “saying the most awful things about you and me." The professor thereupon approached the publishers of his book, who sent a reply paid cable, asking for news of Mrs O’Conroy. The cable was not answered. Mrs O'Conroy is a Japanese and a member of a highly-placed family. She is reported to have helped her husband greatly in his work.