The Archive · 1938

Japanese Army

Formosa Youths Aid — 500 Buffaloes Arrive for — Use on Military Farm

Five hundred Formosan water buffaloes thay will assist 1,000 Formosan youths now engaged in growing vegetables to supply the Japanes forces stationed in Central arrived in Shanghai Saturday, Shanghai "Nippo" reported vester-day, They will be immediately tran ported to the 1,750-acre farm, "somewhere in Ce China," where 125 cares have so far been ploughed and worked by the Formosan valuateers Headed by Mr, Saburo Kumazawa, an agricultural expert.of the Government-General of Formosa, the youths arrived in, Shanghai on April 27, They were selected from thousands of others who volunteered from the four provinces of Taihoku, Tainan, Taichu, and Shihchiku, Organized under semi-military dis: cipline, the youths till the fields from 7,30 o'clock in the morning until sunset, with only a two-hour noontime rest.

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