The Archive · 1938

News Photographer Killed

Japanese Shot by Chinese Irregulars

Chute, Feb, 14.

A Chinese bvilet yesterday" noon Gut short the life of Mr. Fumie Yonagisawa, news cameraman whose la: est assignment was Thotograph hostilities inthe im: mediate vicinity of Confucius' birthplace, for Domei Nows Agency.

The cameraman was passing through the hamlet of Siaosueh, eighteen kins, south of here, company with three other Domei War correspondents, when a band of fitleen Chinese stragglers, armed with rifles and hand-grenades, atiack-Jed them, "Yanagisawa met instant-neons death when a bullet went through his heart. His lege were mangled by the explosion of a hand: gra 'The Japanese motor convoy, which the Domei men' were accompanying im a truck, dispersed. the Chinese band. Yanagisawa, who was the seventh Japanese n rman to lose his life in covering the Sino-Japanese hostilities, recently. gained wide notice in Japan with his Photographie transcript of fighting along the Kisotsi and Tyinpu Rail= ways—Domei,

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