Relief Bean Shipment Must be Handed Over Reviving the "bean question," a Japanese military spokesman yesterday announced that the Japanese authorities would permit the landing of beans in Nanking provided their distribution to the Capital's refugees was placed in the hands of the Army's Special Service Section or the Chinese Autonomous Commission.
One hundred tons of beans were shipped to Nanking over the weekend by the International Relief Committee, for the purpose of averting an epidemic of beri-beri in the abandoned Chinese Capital, The Japanese Army, the spokesman declared, has no desire to inter-fore with relief work, but insists that since Nanking is under Japanese military occupation, the landing and distribution of the beans should be
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