Canton, Nov. 20, Carrying brief cases, instead guns, 83 members of a "civilian ex-Peditionary force" of business men, bankers and consular _employcet following closely in the footsteps of Japanese troops arrived here, sist in the reconstruction of Com Included in the party were Jemployees of banks and business con cerns, the Canton branches of the Bank' of Taiwan, Yokohama Specie Bank, Mitsui Bussan Kaisha and the Taiwan Transport and Express Ca.
Headed by Mr. Igotaro Okamoto vice-chairman of the Japanese Rest, dents' Association, they comprised the second vanguard unit of busi Jness men to arrive in the city since the Japanese occupation. 'The members of the party were consular Jemployces. 'They have taken up their duties in" close ce-operation wilt fliplomatle and' milters Unsstisted with the response to their-demands, the Japanese soldiers Pearl River to are reported to have taken ten men From each of the villages, and "ate
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