The Archive · 1939

Lukouchiao Society To Be Formed Organization Will Mark War

Anniversary Tokyo, June 18.

In commemoration of the second iversary of the start of hostilities, Japanese Army officers, officials and newspaper men who were active in ihe Peiping area at the time of the Marco Polo Bridge incident will form Lukouchiao Society.

Among the members will be Lieut.- Gen. Shozo Kawabe, Lieut.-Gen. Gun Hashimoto, Major-Gen.—Yorimichi Suzuki, Major-Gen. Takuro Matsui, el. Takeo Imai, Lieut.-Col. Tokutaro Sakurai, Lieut-Col Teishiro Nakalima, Commander Sozo Kobetto, Vice-Consul Hisanaga Shimadzu and Professor Shintaro Okuno.

Mr. Toshio Ando, a Domei correspondent who barely escaped death in the Tungchow massacre, and 30 other newspaper men will join the society. The first meeting is scheduled for July 6, the day preceding the anniversary of the Lukouchiao incident.

—Domei

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

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