the Committee of the an Association h: e decreed that all Rumanian citizens living in hai are to be registered. Mem-thus registered will be issued with identification cards -with passport photograph attached. Copies of these cards will be forwarded to the Rumanian Legation in Tokyo.
These identification cards have been made into booklet form, bound in leather with the Rumanian Government's crest stamped in gold, and have as their contents full particular: rpowi the person to whom they ar i A sample booklet has been reled by the President of the Rumanian Association Mr. M. P. Duco. to the French Consul General M. Pierre Auge, for his information and approval.
The Committee also decided that immediately following their meeting today, a special petition will be drawn up addressed to His Majesty King Carol LI requesting him kindly to exempt all those Rumanians residing in the Far East from military service. The Association hopes to receive a favourable reply to their request.
The president of the Committee states that since the Association was ionned those Rumanians who have registered, have shown great zeal in their national work. He hopes that Rumanian citizens living in Shanghai who have not as yet registered, will do so immediate!
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