Tokyo, Dec. 31.
The news received here that the chief of the Japanese mercantile marine office in Vladivostok, Mr. Daijo Takahashi, died in a Soviet prison, caused a great excitement in Japan.
It is announced that the Secretary of the Japanese Embassy in Moscow. in reply to his demand for the liberation of six Japanese citizens imprisoned because of alleged espionage suspicion, was laconically informed at the Soviet Russian Foreign Office that one of these six, Takahashi, had died in prison—Trans-Ocean.
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