Dedicated to the war-dead of the Japanese column which that landed at Hangchow Bay on November 5, 1937, to march upon Nanking, a memorial will soon rise on Chuhua Hill three kilometres outside the former Chinese Nationalist capital, the "Shanghai Mainichi" reported yesterday.
The site was chosen because of its association with the siege of Nanking in December the same year, the paper said, it was on Chyhua Hi that Lieut-Gen. Heisuke Yan; gawa, commander of the column. who is now director-general of the Asia Development Board, established his headquarters, The monument is expected to be completed by November 5, the second anniversary of the famous surprise landing that led to the collapse of the Chinese defence of Shanghai and the fall of Nanking.
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