The Archive · 1938

Mosaic and Actuality Prove Grim Contrast

Against this huge coloured mosaic om the wall of a building at Wuchang showing a panorama of General Chiang Kai-shek and his troops, Japanese soldiers are seen marching to after the capture of the Wuhan cities in the other direction. request of the Prime Minister, Prince Konoye.

The concern will operate as a holding company. and will develop almost every branch of commercial enterprise, including railways, waterwork. pewer-plan shipping. mining, and telephone, telegraph and wireless systems.

Its first task, Mr. Kodama said. would be to reconstruct damage resulting from the hostilities, and the second to develop entirely new enterprises.

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

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