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Show JAPANESE ASSASSIN ; COMMITSJARI-KflR! Leaves Confession in Which He Exults Over the Killing of Director Abe". TOKIO. Sept. lO.-One of tho nm-alns nm-alns of Director Mortlaro Abe of thi Jap-nesc Jap-nesc foreign office committed suicldo by plunging a sword into his abdomen. Director Abe wns attacked on September Septem-ber 4 by two men, who stabbed him twice Jn the abdomen. He died thn next day. The crime was laid at the door of the student clement. Tho director's assassin, who was a student named Okada. committed harl- Kan wniie the body or Abo was being taken to the grnve with military'' honors. Tho studont ended his. life In thc house of a lawyer, where he had taken refuge after the crime, by ripping open his abdomen with a sword while sitting on the map of China. The suicide left an exultlngly couched confession, in- which he said he assassinated assas-sinated the director "in a. delirium of rage caused by the murder of Japanese subjects at Nanking." Mass meetings continue to be held by thc people of Toklo as a protest against thc foreign policy of the Japanese government. |