Forgetting for a time their workaday troubles and anxieties, Shanghat's Japanese community on Dec. 17 abandoned themselves to an enthusi-asia. celebration of the fall of Nanking.
marked by parades, speeches and general feasting, celebrations Coineided with the triumphal entry ff Japanese military and naval forces {nto China's abandoned capital.
Starting the day with a note of solemnity, the Japanese community tat the Shanghai, Shinto Shrine 9 o'clock in the morning for the traditional og-raising ceremony.
To the same shrine the celebrants relumed at 1 o'clock in the afternoon to pay a minute's tribute of silence to the dead, to hear the Japanese Con-Jsul-General, Mr. Sutmasa Okamoto's message of felicitations, and to join thunderous "banzai", Jed by Mr. Masusaburo Amano, the head of the Japanese Residents Corporation, The ceremony was concluded with the accustomed sake "and surume, ried cuttlefish which 1s prized by. the Japanese asa gastronomic Tanks on Parade the afternoon, the tanks and armoured cars of the Special Naval Landing Party rumbled through. the reets of the Hongkew, Whyside and Yangtszepoo areas, précceding by way North Szechuen, Chapoo, Boon Woosung, " Whangpoo, Broadwe Yangtzepoo, Pingliang, Woosung, Kashing and Dixwell Road:
Japanese residents of a more scholarly turn of mind gathered at the Towa Theatre, Chapoo Road, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, to hear lectures delivered by Col. Matsujiro Kimura and Lieut-Comdr. Shoichi Kamata, 'Throughout the late afternoon, 0 military-and a naval plane, bought with money contributed by' the local Japanese community, elteled over the istrict. Both planes had earlier. in the day taken part in an air review over Nanking. -'The naval craft was piloted by Lieut, Norito Ohbayasht, a crack Navy' fir.
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