Novel comforts in the form of dramatic entertainment and 170,000 letters now are being provided for Japanese troops in Central China as a result of the latest voyage here from Japan of the s. Shanghai Maru, the "Shanghai United News" reported yesterday.
A bit of the stage which the Japanese soldiers have not seen for several months was brought to. Shanghai by a troupe of nine comedians; and encouragement was sent by 170,000 school pupils of Osaka who desired to do their bit in Japan's "spiritual mobilization."
Among the 445 passengers brought here on Monday afternoon by the Shanghai Maru were Prince Kuniyuki Tokugawa, Vice-President of the Javan Red Cross Society; 22 officials and civilians of Aichi, Shizuoka and A verdict of death by misadventure was passed by Mr. C. H. Haines, Coroner, in H.M. Police Court yesterday on the four Indians who died in a fire at the Dai Ichi & Co/s Soap Factory, Yangtszepoo, on January 7, The four Indians who met their death in the fire were Bahadur Singh, Santa Hour, his wife, Kapur Singh and Nazar Singh.
Giving his Verdict, Mr. Haines said that the finding was that Bahadar Singh, Santa. Kour and Kapur Singh died at Shanghai on January 7 as a result of suffocation from smoke, and that their bodies were subsequently burned by a fire which had broken out in their sleeping quarters. He further found'that Nazar Singh died at Shanghai on January 7 of burns received in the same fire.
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