The Archive · 1937

CHINESE RETURNING

FROM JAPAN

Exceptionally Large Number on Inbound Steamers Sino-Japanese tension was reflected. on Monday in the arrival in Shanghai of 120 Chinese from Japan in the s. Nagasaki Maru, The majority of those who returned were students, and while an exodus of Chinese during the summer holidays in Japanese schools is an annual occurrence, the "Shanghai Mainichi" remarked that the size of Monday's contingent was "exceptional."

Seventy-five Chinese passengers boarded the vessel at Kobe and 45 at Nagasaki, The "Mainichi" quoted the local Chinese press as stating that the evacuation of the 6,000

Chinese in Japan was being contem plated. Of the total, approximately 4,000 are students,

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