The Archive · 1922

The Japanese Government, on

WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS FROM HANKOW

May 27, 1922, announced that the Japanese garrison at Hankow would be promptly withdrawn. In accordance with this decision all the Japanese troops were withdrawn from Hankow on July 2, 1922.

At the Washington Conference the Japanese Delegation announced that the military radio apparatus in the barracks of the Japanese garrison at Hankow would be disposed of at the time of the with-"hawal of troops, and in accordance with this announcement the Japanese Government is making preparations to pull down the whole wireless equipment. As to the barracks, accessory buildings and the land on which they are situated, part ofjthem will be lent to the local Japanese residents to be used as a playground, club or public hall, other parts will he lent to the Tao Dobun Kai, for the purpose of enlarging an educational institution having as its object the promotion of Sino-Japanese: culture and welfare.

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

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