City: Merchants, Shipping Agents in Group ILLOWING on the heels of the Japanese army which already has. completed its occupation of the Wuhan sector, the vanguard of the Japanese civilian army was continuing its push upriver on a 900-ton vessel, the Shanghai *Nippo" reported yesterday morning on the basis of Nanking dispatches.
The vanguard, comprising a group of 180 Japanese men and women, left Shanghai last Tuesday on board the small river steamer Daishin Maru.
The vessel left Nanking on Friday and was reported chugging upstream toward her destination.
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