Hankow, Nov. 5 een months after its closure, as Sino-Japanese tension reached a critical stage in August last year, the Japanese Consulate-General here was reopened today in temporary quartes The original building in the Japanese Concession reduced to a mass of rubble by the retreating Chinese, the Consulate-General was installed in the former building of the Bank of Communications in the former British Concession, later known as Special Adminitrative District Three.
Headed by the Consul-General, Mr. Yoshiyuki Hanawa, 30 consular officials and consular police, with a sprinkling of civilians who accompanied the Japanese army and navy in special capacities, sang the "Kimigayo"—the Japanese national anthem—as a Sun flog-was unfurled above the building. The gathering then turned in the ection of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for a salute.
A toast was subsequently drunk by those present.
The Bank of Communications is a four-storied ferry-conerete structure.
—Domei.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.