Loaded with cargo and passengers from Japan, among them a group of foreign military officers on an inspection tour and a girl scenario writer who plans to fashion a movie plot out of the Shanghai hostilities, the Shanghai Maru arrived here at 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, the "Shanghai United News" reported yesterday, The militar: party, including a Polish, a British, an American, Siamese and a Finnish officer, came to inspect the operations of Japanese troops at the front lines, They were warmly greeted by Major Naokata Utsunomiya, Assistant Military Attache of the Japanese Embassy.
Attention of the paper's reporter was focussed on the 28-year old scenarist, Miss Noriko Suzuki, a representative of the Japan Cinema Company, who came here to make a screen version of the activities pi. Heizaburo Suzuki, her who died in action in the Shanghai area Saddened by his death, Miss Suzuki said she first received the news on October 26 from the original detachment to which her brother belonged. She said she would frst visit the military hospital where he died and then go to the front lines to gather material for her. story, Indicating Osaka's fears of possible air raids by Chinese planes, four engineers from that city also came here aboard the Shanghai Maru, They will investigate the traces of shelling and bombing in this area in order to prepare for possible aerial attacks Osaka, the newspaper said The engineers are Mr. Shin Torii, Mr, Seinosuke Matsui, Mr, Nobu! Yoshida and Mr, Kenichi Yagi
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