Tokio, Sept. 4.
Mr. R. Saito, Chief of the First. Section of the Commercial Bureau of the Foreign Office, was shot and. seriously wounded in the abdomen by one Nichiyama, an employee of the Amoy branch of the Kamakita Electric Company, in Mr. Saito's office to-day. Nichiyama then fled from the Foreign Office and rushed to the Police Headquarters, where he voluntarily gave himself up, There were two officials present in Mr. Saito's room who witnessed the shooting, whilst many persons saw Nichiyama's precipitate flight from the Foreign. Office. At all who attempted to stop him as he ran, he brandished his pistol.
Mr. Saito was at once conveyed to hospital where he is lying unconscious. iyama_has a claim pending against the Chinese Government as 'a result of his having been shot in Fukien province a while ago. The Foreign Office is presenting the claim to Peking.
The accepted theory of the motive for the attack on Mr. Saito is that Nichiyama blamed that official for delay in the settlement of the claim.—Reuter.
Tokio, Sept. 6.
Mr. R. Saito, the Foreign Office official who was shot in his office by a Japanese fron, Amoy a few days ago. is still in a dangerous Tokio, Sept. 7.
Nishiyama, the assailant of Mr. R. Saito, of the Foreign Office, explains his action in a letter friend. He says that following on his being shot in China he presented a claim against the Chinese Government, but the Japanese Government "were indifferent to the matter." Accordingly he thought that "a proper settlement was necessary, for the sake of the national honour." Nishiyama adds that he had no personal animosity against. Mr. Saito, It is reported that Nishiyama claimed over Y.130,000 compensation but the authorities proposed a claim of Y.7,000.—Renter.
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