The Archive · 1933

Gift of Swords

however, they will make. their exit When the troops actually. leave, amid much ceremony. Flags will be "presented to them and they will be officially bid farewell by representatives of various Kuomintang organisations and public bodies and by the local delegates of Chinese associations overseas.

Several public bodies in Canton are' purchasing 3,000. big swords for the troops, reports to the Chinese press having stated ¢hat magnificent use of these weapons had been made by the Chinese forces along the Great Wali in ferocious hand-to-hand fighting.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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