He deplored the failure of the Nationalist Government in China "to rectify its attitude from the broad standpoint of peace in the Far East and collaboration with Japan and Manchoukuo."
Admiral Suetsugu urged the people to be strong in the face of difficulties and bring about "u spiritual and material mobilization" so that the internal affairs of the country could be maintained on a sound basis" as a prerequisite to coping with prospective developments."
"The Admiral left Tokyo on Sunday by train to visit the mausoleum of Emperor Jimmu at Unebi, the Kashi-wata Shrine, and the Momoyama mausoleum in order to report his assumption of the portfolio as Home Minister.—Domel, 4
Amid clapping from the handful of people present, the medal was pinned on to the upper left hand pocket of the smart blue coat which the lad was wearing. "Congratulations, Valentine" said Mr. Gauss, and he and the remainder of the "audience" shook the little Hungarian warmly by the hand.
Those who attended the presentation were Mrs. H. L. Ricks, secretary of the SS.P.C.A, Mr. R. N. Swann, chairman, and Mr. H. Middleton, also an official of the society.
Holdosi, it will be recalled, made a hazardous tour of the war zone to s home in Thorburn Road, Yangtszepoo threading his way through Nantao, across the Whangpoo to Pootung, and thence to the dangerous [Pootung Point, where he boarded a launch down river, and landed safely at the Shanghai Power Co's. wharf.
Escaping from an Indian watchman who was detailed to keep him safely in a boiler room, he completed his trip by walking two miles through Yangtszepoo until finally he reached his home—and his pets. These he found tarred and feathered, the work of a fiend who had condemned them, so he thought to a slow, agonizing death. Tearfully he embraced the odd quartette, half feathered fowl, half mongrel dog, and meeting with a kindly Settlement police sergeant his troubles were at an end, and he reached home in safety.
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