The Archive · 1938

Citizens Training Units Parade

Many shops in Hankow suspended their business this afternoon when 40,000 able-bodied citizens, who had been undergoing military training, assembled here for a review held im connection with the Double Tenth Chiang Kai-shek did not hold a reception, owing to the hostilities, Squads at girls, belonging to Mme Chiangs Women's War Relief Association, went around to the various hospitals visiting the wounded soldiers, and distributing comforts, They also visited the Chinese troops in the Hankow area, In a, statement addressed to the Chinese people, Gen. Chiang Kaishek pointed out that the nation's most trying year offered an opportunity for the achievement of its greatest success. He also urged the Anniversary.

They were divided into two groups, comprising first aid units for wound" ed soldiers at the front, and first aid units for service during air raids.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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