Shanghai, Sept. 3.
More than 700 local Japanese Fe sidents fled past the urns containing the ashes of the late Mr. Keiji Fukagawa, and Mr, Kozaburo Wat anabo, In! a (Wo-hours ceremony in the auditorium of the Japanese Club, Boone Road, yesterday afternoon Mr, Shigeru" Kawagoe, Ambassador headed the list of distinguished per sons who paid their last respects, ano the memorial service, held according to. Buddhist rites, was sponsor jointly. by. the Shanghat Japanese Press Association, the Japanese Res!- dents Corporation, the Federation of Amalgamated Japanese Street Un" fons, the Association of Japanese Cotton Mitlowners in China, and the Shanghol Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry. More than Ally wreaths wore banked on the auditorium platform, which had been improvised into'an altar.
Addresses were read by representa tives of the Shanghai Japanese Pres Association, the Shinko Club, the Honan Club, the Japanese Resident: Corporation, the sfapanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Fed: eration of Amalgamated " Japanese Street Unions, the Japanese Christian Church, the Saga Provincial Association, the Hyogo Provincial Asso-elation, the Society of Imperial University Graduates, and the Shanghai Korean Residents Associa tion. Rear-Admiral Osamu Sato. Naval Attache, and Mr. Kaname Wakasugi, Counsellor of the Janas ese Embassy and concurrently sul-General also eulogized the dead.
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