Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1926, Page 13

RESCUE OF BRTSH " CREW STRS PN Tokio Press Lavish in Pictur- ing Heroism of Both Races in Great Danger. BY J. RU SLL KENNEDY. By Radie 1o The Star and Chicago Daily News. TOKIO, June 18.-~The captain and crew of the British freighter City of Naples achieved more toward Anglo-' nese friendship and understand in a day than all the diplomacy, propaganda speeches achieve in vears. The Japanese newspapers teem this morning with stories of British pluck and Hindu aplomb in the face of most extreme danger. privation und strain when the crew of the Briti el was rescued b and banquet f positions, with hands vidently unconscious of the cameras. Their attitudes show genuine feeling. The newspapers Capt. Connor's fine forethought in caring for the crew throughout the trying three days upon | a deck tipped to an angle of 40 de hip's prow was buried s period, threatening to take one last dive into the whirl- pooled Pacific. The press paints a word picture of two Jupanese blue- jackets in a lifehoat approaching the precariously tipped fgighter atop the reef, while officers and crew of the City of Naples, looking down from the Ppoop. lowered a long rope ladder. The lifeboat occupants made rope fast to submerged roc wbhich they climbed up, te: perilous link between the dizzy of the freighter and the ferocious rocks below. Boarding the freighter, the two Japanese were cheered and embraced by the half-starved crew, which immediately. thereafter slipped down to the lifeboats until 73 were saved. The Tokio newspapers also make a feature of the fact that Capt. Connor was the last to leave the stranded #hip. Even then he was most reluct ant. His final act was lowering the Union Jack, which throughout the three days the freighter held its crew captive on the coral reef had flown bravely from the afterpost. The storieg of the British sailor well told and illustrated in the Japa- nese press and have a special appeal to the Japanese people, who are justly ive an account of discipline and this after the | rail (Copynizht. 1 s . Coegne i Self-Defense Plea Brings Release of West Virginian. h to The Star BURG, W. Va., June 15.— Jox, railroader, was acquitted Circuit Court jury here late ves- after a two-day trial on charges of having felonjously shot Jesse Frye, a World War buddy, at a passenger station here last November. The jury was out an hour and a half. Cox pleaded self-defense. 0 genuinely did he fear physical harm at the hands of Frye that he armed himself, he told the jury. = Evidence was offered. but excluded from the jury, to the effect that Frye and Cox had had trouble over atten tion allegzed to have heen paid Mrs. Cox by Frye and that it culminated in filing of an alienation of affection suit a’ day or so before the shooting took place. Meadow Larks Halt Train. 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KANSAS CITY, June 18.—Masaji Kawahara, a Japanese truck farm- near here, hanged himself when he learned that . to which he was much was dead. became excited during a thunderstorm last night and choked itself to death in its effort to break away from a tree to which it was tied. Using the rope from the halter, Kawahara hanged himself from the. tree. POPE DENIES RUMORS. Declares Church Is Not Working for Political Ends in Asia. ROME, June 18 (#).——Pope Pius has sent a »stolic letter to the vicars and ap prefects in China, deny- ing rumors reportedly current in Asia to the effect that the Catholic church is acting toward political ends Affirming that the dors of Ge not of any nd pointing to the efforts to create a native clergy, the letter says the church’s occasional acceptunce of special protection is motivated by a desive to defend itself against unjust e jons. 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