One story of Japanese heroism was related. When the Chinese attacked the slender Japanese positions after 'a heavy barrage, a party of 20 bluejackets rushed out from Kwangchung Road into Suitien Road, surprising the Chinese on the road and helping materially in stemming the initial attack. Five tiny wooden boards, bearing names and inscriptions in Japanese, with a few flowers at the base, were seen stuck in the earth at the foot of a gravemannd and told the simple story of that action. In fact, in assessing the human cost of the war panorama unfolded to the visitors, many of these little wooden "marks, each with its little floral
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