MURDER POLITICS
JAPANESE NEWSPAPER MAN ATI'ACKED. SECRETARY SHOT DEAD. SEQUEL TO RECENT EXPOSURE OF CORRUPTION. (Received Friday, 7 p.m.) TOKIO, March 9. Mr. Sanji Muto, president of the u Jiji Shimpo, ,, one of TOhio’s leading newspapers, was shot while leaving his villa at Kamakura for Tokio. He is not dead, but is in a critical condition. His secretary was killed. The assassin committed suicide. The motive for the crime is at present unknown, but it is. assumed that it was in connection with the “Jiji Shimpo’s” recent, exposures of politico-indus-trial corruption in the steel merger and other deals, implicating prominent industrialists. M. Muto is himself a leading industrial figure and was formerly president of Kanegafuchieo, the biggest cotton spinners of Japan. ASSASSIN’S GRIEVANCE. APPROPRIATION OF AN IDEA. (Received This Day, 1.15 a.m.) TOKIO, March 9. Mr. Muto has received a blood transfusion and may survive. It is revealed that his assailant, Fukushima, was annoyed at the aippropriation of his idea for the municipalisation of the local crematorium, on which Muto’s newspaper had editorially commented. Fukushima demanded three thousand yen. When payment was refused he ambushed and fired at Muto.
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Wairarapa Age, 10 March 1934, Page 5
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