Tokyo, June 7.
Reports that the Soviet Government interlied 10 close Japanese and. Ger~ rman Consulates hn Odessa and. Viadi= sto, on the ground that they. were centers of espionage "and. sabotage setivities, to-day still Igeked oMelal Galmmusho officials pointed out that ne number of Consulates in Russia has been stipulated in reciprocal treaties, and consequently could not be reduced unilaterally,—Domel, Two near-centenarians, a Chinese calligrapher and a Japanese 1ad3 educationalist, met in Tokyo on Friexehiinge views on life and of happiness. The man was Mr. Yang 'Tsao-hsien, 98, a Szechuenese paying his first visit to Japan, 'The lady was Mrs. Ayako Tanabashi, the renowned 98-year old principal of the Tokyo Higher Girls' School. Mrs, Tanabashi's son, himself an aged man, acted as an interpreter.
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