The Archive · 1937

School Children Rejoice

Japanese Holidays Extended for Ten Days Sino-Japanese tension may worry their elders, but to the 3,000 pupils of local Japanese schools it is nothing, to be worried about. On the contrary, they agreed on Aug. 6, as the Educational Affairs Commitee of Ue Japanese Residents' Corporation announced that summer vacations would be extended ten days to the end of August, it was something to rejoice over.

The frst local Japanese evacuation was reported on Aug. 0, with about twenty women and children moving. from their homes in Kiangwan Road the Settlement.

This followed. according to Mr. Matahachiro Ejima, chairman of the Japanese street "union involved, manoeuvres by about 500 members of Peace Preservation Corps. from, 1 to 5 o'clock on the morning. of August 6, the morning hours alone more than 1,000 refugees fan average passed over the Soochow Creek bridges every hour. A steady stream of vehicles was observed in the afternoon,

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

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