Picked up from the roadside by 4 kind Japanese officer, as she clung o the body of her dead mother, a "daughter o! the Japanese Army" marked the first inniyerra: of hen adoption in Nanking singing a Japanese. lullaby. local Japanese newspapers reported yesterday. She plays with dolls given to her by Gen. Iwane Matsui, former commander-in-chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Force to Central China, and is dressed in kimono given her by Vice-Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, commander-in-chief of the Japanese China Seas Fleet.
Named Matsuko, by Gen. Matsui who acted as her god father, she was placed in the care of Mrs, Kazuhiko Torikawa, wife of the secretary of the Japanese Officers' Club in Nanking, last spring when the army moved north for the battle of Hsuchow. A Col. Murakami, aide to Gen. Matsui, gave her his family name.
She was found near Tanguichen, a hot springs east of Nanking, on December 6. Col. Murakami became her foster father.
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