SHOTS FIRED AT SOVIET AGENT.
PROTEST BY JAPANESE AT POLICY OF RUSSIA. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.). (Received March 17, 8.30 a.m.) TOKIO, March 16. M. Aniekeff, Soviet Commercial Agent, was leaving his residence in the suburbs for the city this morning, when he was shot three times, but not fatally. His assailant surrendered to the police. He stated that the motive was indignation at the Soviet hampering Japan’s treaty rights in the Kamchatka fisheries.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 64, 17 March 1931, Page 1
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