The Archive · 1937

More Frightfulness

FmoM a contemporary:—

CHENGTU, Oct. 8—On Sunday, the entire city of Chengtu was benagged. It seemed that a Chinese hag was hanging from almost every house, shop, school, or public building in the city. The occasion was the departure of over 100,000 Chinese soldiers from Szechuen, They are to proceed to east China and join in the war against Japan. During the day a special farewell was held in one of the public parks of Chengtu. it a bit hard to hang the hags?

It may be all right to benag a city, but isn't

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

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