A GREAT STATESMAN
TRADE OFFICIAL'S TRIBUTE POLICE PROTECTION METHODS [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Nov. 18. Regret at the news of the shooting of the Prime Minister of Japan was expressed by Mr K. Kubota, Japanese trade commissioner in New Zealand, who is stationed at Wellington. Mr Kubota said he was associated with Mr Hamaguchi about 1914, when he was employed in the Japanese Treasury. Mr Hamaguchi was then sub-Minister of Finance. Last year he saw Mr Hamaguchi, who was then in his zenith as the greatest statesman of Japan. Mr Hamaguchi’s son, who had given his blood for transfusion to save the life of his father, was the Prime Minister’s only child. He was married only last year. “Whenever tho Japanese Prime Minister appears in his motor car in public,” said Mr Kubota, “he is escorted by armed police on motor cycles, in accordance with the Japanese system. When he walks out he is guarded by plain-clothes men. You see we have individuals in our country who would sacrifice even such a noble patriot and popular figure as our Prime Minister to satisfy their cult.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 429, 21 November 1930, Page 7
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185A GREAT STATESMAN Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 429, 21 November 1930, Page 7
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