Three months ago, Japanese soldiers combing Nantao in search of snipers, came upon the little boy prostrated over the cold bodies of his parents.
Inured as they w io scenes of horror, the soldiers were profoundly moved the "Nippo" reporied. Private Keiji Naito volunteered to be the child's god-father.
For two months, the boy remained vith Naito's unit,, doing errands. helping the cooks, playing with the soldiers, and slowly accumulating a vocabulary of useful, although not always printable, words.
When the unit was transferred to another position, Naito anged with the Momoyama Cafe proprietress to take care of the boy.
To-day, he stands at rigid atten tion in front of the band-stand, only the radiant smile betraying his pleasure, the daily said.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.