The Archive · 1938

Japanese Journalist Loses All

Robbed of Money While Attending Reception When seven luminaries of the Japanese literary world left Shanghai for Nanking on Sunday morning to "cover" the naval phase of the attack on the Wuhan cities, Haruo Sato, a poet, was literally penniless, the "Shanghai Nippo" reported yesterday, Mr. Sato, the Japanese daily said, was relieved of Y.2000 which he had placed in a trunk shortly before attending a dinner in honour of the party of writers given by Mr, Wang Tze-hui, Minister of Industries of the "Reformed Government, in the dining room of the Broadway Mansions on Saturday. Mr, Sato, who arrived in Shanghai on September 14, was confined to his Broadway Mansions room on the eleventh floor

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