Mr. Sotomatsu Kato, Japanese Minister-at-Large, paid a courtesy call on September 14 on Mre Liang Hung-chih, Chairman of the Executive Yuan of the Reformed Government at Nanking. goods have been damaged—as "also Targe quantities of military stores—and hundreds of houses in the Japan ese Concession will require rebuild ing; many of the new factories have been so badly damaged thnt they are completely useless; thousands" of small Japanese businessmen have lost all their capital. Above all, the pur chasing power of over 2,000,000 prob-fable customers has been completely wiped out. This year's-cotton crop South Hopel has been utterly ruined; but the tale of the raw. cotton crop of North China was-one of the baits held out to Japanese business Interests by the military when setting out on their China Adventure.
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