Completed Probably unique in the history of anghai Was the scene witnessed on. Sunday. afterabon at the Nipipon Yusen Kaisha Wayside Wharf, when solenin ceremonial welcomed " the arrival by the liner Shanghai Maru of "Divine Spirits" specially brought from Japan to consecrate the local Japanese Shinto shrines, recently built in Kiangwan Road.
"Aboard the express liner, which berthed shortly after 2.0 patio gaily ed with flags in honour of the jon, were Mr G. Yasui, chair of com nghai Japanese Residents'. Association and Mr. E Teuruta, Shinto priest in charge of the shrines here. The object of their mission to Japan was to oscer: back the symbolic caskets believed to embody the spirits of Amaterasu Gmnkami, held in legend to Be the
Japanese Imperial family, and those pore ancient ancestrens ofthe supancse, war victim, brought from the great. Tee. Shrine, the {sland empires most. vencra sanctuary, and the Shokousha Shrine built in Tokyo in memory of those fallen in she service of the country.
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