Civilians Now Number Over Four Thousand Canton, Apr. 25.
Setting up an all-time high record, the Japanese population of Canton has passed the 4,000 mark, it was announced at the weekly press conference.
Up to the end of March, it was stated, Japanese subjects in Canton including Koreans and Formosans b excluding the military, number 4415. Of these only 800 were wame! including 300 geisha girls, waitre and entertainers.
The Japanese populatión in Canton it was added, had never at any previous time exceeded 400.
By far the greater number of Japane: anton are following the profession of clerks in banks and commercial concerns, nan at the c.ner extreme there i one Japanese engaged in farming.
There are some forty Japanese doctors and nurses in the city 14 civil engineers and contractors, four teachers, seven monks and 25 photographers.
Japanese businesses in present are said to include 5 port and export firms, 90 hotels a restaurants, 80 grocery and gene merchandise stores, 18 barber sh seven shipping firms, six trucking and forwarding concerns, and 21 masonry and carpent: establishments, Reuter.
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