The Archive · 1938

Nearly Repaired

Engineers Rush Work to Bring Comrades' Ashes To Wuhan Cities

Hankow, Nov. 24.

Death spurred Japanese military engineers in restoring the badly-damaged southernmost portion of the Peiping-Hankow Railway it was revealed today with the arrival here of three urns containing the ashes of war dead.

It was in order that these receptacles might be brought to Hankow by rail that the Japanese engineer unit engaged in repairing the line worked day and night to achieve the task far sooner than expected.

The urns contain the remains of Major Ryonosuke

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

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