The mother of Munekazu Tachibana, the seven-year-old nephew of Mr. Chsugi Sakai, who was done to death along with his wife by a gendarmerie captain on September 16, has instituted a suit against the Japanese Government. The child was an American citizen having been born in Portland, Oregon. The necessary papers proving his American nationality have arrived and lawyers have been engaged by the lad's mother to press the suit to the uttermost. The father of the deceased boy owned a restaurant in Portland and is believed to be on his way here. The mother and her murdered son came to Japan a few weeks before the earthquake to visit relatives. Ohsugi was very fond of the lad and the latter was spending a few days with his uncle when the earth trembled and he mete a hideous death, not through the fire or quake; but at the hands of
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