The Archive · 1938

Boy Farmer-soldiers For Manchoukuo

Japan Changes Scheme for Colonization Removed immediately to hospital, the man succumbed to his injuries before he could give any clue as to the identity of his assailants, and the boy was detained.

Police. from the Pootoo Road station were quickly on the scene, but the men had escaped and no clue was.fortheoming as to their identity. The motive of robbery was not considered by the police, although it is thought that the assassins may have been enemies of the dead San Francisco, July 16.

The Institute of Pacific Relations said today that Japan plans to colonize Manchoukuo with 1,000,000 boy farmer-soldiers instead of farming families, as originally intended.

The programme already started, is for the primary object of collonization, the Institute said, although it pointed out that it was no secret that such colonization would immensely strengthen the Japanese garrisons in north Manchuria.—United Press.

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