Shanghai, Oct, 19, Messrs, Takahashi and Miyazaly chief-engineer and first-engines* respectively, of the N. K. K, 8, Yihyang Maru, who have been held captives for a little over o12 year by Chinese bandits on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River anc-who were released on the 2nd instant, arrived here yesterday fon board the str. Yohyang Mara, in company with Mr. Kifune, Panese Consul in Chungking, Szechuan, who effected their relense—Eastern News Agency, Many Shanghai people were ignorant of the existence of Liuho, Huangtu, Tsinpu and other strategic' points of the late war. In many cases with large scale maps the task of the foreign sub-editors of British and American journals in trying to understand the position revealed by their correspondents far-off Shanghai must have been sore trial, Both in Amerien and England the war nows accordingly suffered considerable distortion, But the most entertaining: "bloomer"™ has been committed by a Los Angeles paper. Tt publishes a photo the unveiling of the Shanghai War Memorial last November, Volunteers and contingents of Allied sailors and marines drawn up in front of the memorial ave represent ed as "foreign marines landing in Shanghai in anticipation of hos-
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