Ground breaking ceremonies for the construction of a place for the preservation of bones where all the earthly remains of Japanese "fo gotten souls' will be deposited, will ie held at the Japanese Cemetery in Chapel on August 11, the "Shanghai "Mainichi" reported on July 22, The repository—18 feet high, 20 fect Goop and 14 feet wide—will be bul by Mr, Fusao Yoshikawa, owner of a "tempera" shop on Boone Road, Realizing that many graves of Japanese, who died in Shanghai since the first days of the establishment of 8 Japanese colony in a small corner of the then "roaring" Hongkew district, are not being attended, either because there are no relatives or because they are forgotten, Mr. Yoshikawa, who was described as a devout Buddhist, decided on, building the led graves will be checked off by the Japanese Buddhist Association their contents may be transferred to the ossuary where joint services will be held regularly for the repose of the souls, the Jupanese ally stated,
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