Canton, Nov. 20.
Carrying brief instead of guns, 53 members of a "civilian expeditionary force" of business men, bankers and consular employees following closely in the footsteps of Japanese troops arrived here to assist in the reconstruction of Canton.
Included in the party were 43 employees of banks and business concerns, the Canton branches of the Bank of Taiwan, Yokohama Specie Bank, Mitsui Bussan Kaisha and the Taiwan Transport and Express Ca.
Headed by Mr. Isotaro Okamoto, vice-chairman of the Japanese Residents' Association, they comprised the second vanguard unit of business men to arrive in the city since the Japanese occupation. The members of the party were consular ty employees.
They have taken up their duties in close ce-operation with diplomatic and military authorities.—Domei,
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