Later, when warfare approached the gates of Hangchow, plain-clothes Chinese soldiers began watching closely the movements of Mr. Nishikawa. As the situation grew more alarming and the officials of the Japanese Consulate evacuated, the patriarch's friends, fearing that harm would befall him, besought him to leave the city for a safer place.
Mr. Nishikawa and his family went to japan in the middle of August, taking up residence in Nagasaki to await news of the occupation of Hangchow and the cessation of troubled times. Becoming homesick for his adopted city, Mr. Nishikawa came to Shanghai in December, accompanied by his eldest son, Mr. Takeji Nishikawa aged 21.
They followed the Japanese troops operating in the Hangchow district, and returned to the city the same day the soldiers occupied it.
Contrary to his expectations, Mr. Nishikawa found that many Chinese people had remembered his advice and remained in the city during the five-month period of unrest.
When the news spread that the "patriarch" had returned many Chinese people hurried to his home and welcomed him back with demonstrations of joy, the paper concluded.
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