Tokyo, Nov. 20.
Drastic improvements in the mechanized equipment of the Japanese Army for adaptation to the difficulties of the China terrain will be effected following a survey to be conducted by eight technical experts and engineers of Japan's munitions factories. it was announced last night.
They will leave on a tour of in spection of the Shanghai, Nanking, Kiukiang and the Hankow areas Sponsored by the Armament Bur of the War Office, the p: y dit in two units, will leave by air from Fukuoka on November 28 and November 29 to study the results of the performances of tanks, armoured cars, military motor cars and other vehicles used for transport and patrol purposes.
Needed corrections will be mapped out in order to further the efficient of the motorized units to enable t to overcome the natural obs such as the swames, sand dunes, and muddy stretches of the plains under all climatic conditions.—Domei.
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