Tokyo, June 4.
More than 8,000 Japanese youths will be sent to Manchoukuo, Mongolia and North China to work on agricultural and land reclamation projects commencing at the end of this month, officials of the Ministry of Education announced.
Several groups of young men totalling 6263 will be sent to Manchoukuo while 1,918 will go to North China and Mongolia. They will be chosen from among students of young men's schools, colleges and normal schools, and members of young men's associations, They will engage in farming, cattle breeding, land reclamation, fertilizer making, civil engineering, building, navigation, transportation, and cultural work. Preparations are in charge of the Ministry of Education, prefectural governors and school principals. The sum of Y.380,000 has been appropriated Dome'
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