Campaigning to make the area around the Tazang Monument a memorial park, the Shanghai branch ar the Women's Society of the Buddhist Koyasan Sect, on Range Road, is sponsoring a movement to plant 10,000 cherry and maple trees there, the "Shanghai Mainichi" reported.
Donations of the desired trees were received last Tuesday, with such an overwhelming response that a surplus has developed. The actual planting of the trees will take place during the early spring under the direction of the Japanese commissariat headquarters, the paper said. Approval of the plan had been given by Japanese army authorities.
The Rev. Chokaku Timura, chief priest of the Sect, said he would like to see the surplus trees planted around the Woosung Monument to commemorate the Japanese landing there and at Nanking, the daily reported.
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