Japanese troops entering Hankow were amazed to find, besides the Rising Sun and Five-Barred flags, not a few Italian and German flags. Upon "too many" of the larger. bulld-ings, including the Chinese Government Printing Bureau, were hoisted the Italian and Swastika emblems.
Investigations, it was learned, revealed that General Chiang Kai-shek, upon deciding to evacuate Hankow, transferred much of the property belonging to the Nationalist government to Germans and Italians residing in Hankow in order to evade any eventual sequestration of properties by the Japanese military authorities.
The "Ningpo Commercial and Savings Bank, one of the largest! buildings in the city, has been converted into a German-owned restaur. Fant. Japanese army authorities, it was disclosed, have confiscated the Ningpo Commercial and Savings Bank
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