Japanese Ranks +7
Army Spokesman Ridicules Hongkong Report Presence of women in the ranks of the Japanese troops in China was denied yesterday by a spokesman for the Army. The presence of Japanese "Amazons" on the Tsinpu front was reported in. Hongkong on Wednesday by the official Chinese Central News Agency. The fact that women have been mobilized, the Chinese report asserted, proved Japan's lack of manpower, "Circulation of such reports," the spokesman said, "indicates that the Chinese are inclined to judge others by their own action."
There were women, he recalled. fighting side by side with the men of the so-called "Lost Battalion," which was besieged in a Chinese Ahnual Basket Fair Opens The annual Basket Fair at Bubbling Well opened in pri-vote grounds, for the first time, yesterday. The S.M.C. at first refused to grant permission for the fair to be held, on account of "public peace and order," but an alternative plan, calling for the fair to be held in private grounds behind the Paramount, off Jessfield Road, was later submitted by the in charge of the Bubbling Well Temple. The Council, having regard to its "wish to encourage trade and commerce," granted permission for the fair to be held
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