Tokyo, Jan. 8.
Taking official cognizance of the Gisappearance on Jan. 3 of a popular Japanese screen actress and a drama producer over the boundary of North Saghalien. the Japanese Government to-day instructed Rib consular representatives in the northern Soviet territory to start a search for the pair.
Romantic speculation which has kept Tokyo theatrical circles agog for three days, took note of a possibility that the couple, Miss Yoshiko Okada, 35, and Mr. Yoshi-masa Yoshida, 31, who were reputed to be sweethearts, carried out a Ccuble suicide pact in the snowy wastes across the border. No motive was advanced to explain such an act.
The theory entertained in official charters was that the actress and Producer are being detained at Alexandrovsk. Mr. Bunichiro Tanaka. Japanese Consul-General at Alexandvovsk, was ordered to ascertain the hereabout of the couple and take them into custody if found.—Mr. Yoshida had been under surveillance for alleged Communistic sympathies.
Domei.
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