(Continued from page 5) of a Curtis-Hawk fighter was in the centre of the landing field.
Men who had passed through the aerodrome gateway structure were astounded to see how it had been prepared for war usage, Only thin plaster had covered the walls. That had been knocked away disclosing machine-gun ports for exceptionally strong concrete pill-boxes, whose rear doors could not have been more elaborate for a strong room, The Hungjao area had seen the first and almost the closing stages of the Shanghai war, for there on August 9 had occurred the death of Sub-Lieutenant Ohyama and Seaman Yozo Saito which set the spark to the subsequent conflict. The visitors were taken to the double grave of the two Japanese beside Monument Road where they died. At the corners and in front of the big, grassed mound Japanese pines have been planted in the last few days. A strong bamboo fence has been built four-square around the grave. The names of the men have been inscribed on tall tablets of plain wood. The grave was covered in chrysanthemum blooms and every now and again Japanese army officers and men halted their march to to their dead comrades-in-arms. The beauty of this lonely grave and the solemnity of these soldiers' reverence made a poignant scene,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.