Kobe, June 15.
A woman physician seeking revenge against a former lover sent him a box of attractive cakes which she had filled with typhoid germs, Dr. Kikuko Hirose, 38, confessed to police that she was responsible for the effort to murder Dr. Mikio Sato, 37, assistant head physician of the Maiko hospital at Tarumi.
Dr, Sato's brother died after eating the cake, Dr. Sato and a sister became ill and nine primary school teachers who were guests at a party where the cakes were served also became infected.
Miss Hirose told police a story of a love affair that went back 15 years to the time she was working in the Kobe citizens' Hospital after graduate ing with honours from Tokyo Women's Medical College.
Dr. Sato then was a poor medical student at Kyoto Imperial University. He visited the Kobe hospital to inspect its equipment and was attracted by Miss Hirose. He began to make love to her and soon afterward, according to Miss Hirose's story, persuaded her to live with him.
Dr. Sato was having difficulties financing his medical studies so Miss Hirose, then a qualified physician, went into practice to earn money for his education. She said that for six years she pinched and scraped, sending him from Yen 100 to Yen 300 each month of that time.
After Dr. Sato finished his medical course and started on a successful career, Miss Hirose said, he lost interest in her. In 1937 he finally told her he was through with her. Thinking he would change his mind, Miss Hirose waited for some show of returning affection, There was none. Patience waned and hatred grew until she finally determined upon the murder attempt.—United Press.
Spanish-German Trade Burgos, June 15.
Spain's post-war trade relations with Germany were discussed here yesterday when the Spanish Foreign Minister, Mr. Francisco Jordana, received the German Ambassador. They were said to have worked out plans for German and Spanish trade commissions to meet jointly in Berlin and Burgos—United Press, "The American trade programme is not only based on principles which lime and experience have proven to be economically sound, but also essentially sound in maintaining those international relations which make for a peaceful world. Every departure from the policy represented by this programme has led to the stilling of healthy trade and commerce and to the undermining of social stability.
"Under a regime of law and orderly adjustment and development, it is not possible to stifle normal economic processes without diminishing human freedom and national security and independence. Discriminatory arrangements not only necessitate an increasing regimentation of economic life but an increasing regimentation of human beings and their ultimate loss of political freedom. Small na-jons which enter into such arrangements with a large nation become increasingly dependent upon the large nation for economic existence and inevitably become political vassals of the large nation.
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