Show How a Japanese Takes a Binding Oath At the coroners inquest npon the body of one of the victims of the fire at a Japanese Jap-anese village a difficulty arose as to the method of administering an oath to a Japanese The witness himself said it was usual to cut ones finger and wipe the blood on a piece of paper but the coroner said he was afraid if he ordered him to do that he might be an accessory te an assault The Japanese explained that dipping his finger in ink would answer an-swer the purpose and this course was adopted StauroLiuzo was then examine exam-ine through Tomnig Kitchie the interpreter inter-preter and it transpired that he knew nothing about the fire London Telegraph Tele-graph |