Party Will Paint China's Scenic Spots Six representative Japanese artists, selected to paint famous scenic spots in China, arrived here Sunday from Kobe in the Tatuta Maru, the "Mainichi Shimbun" said yesterday. It is the first undertaking of its kind in China.
The artists, invited here by the Central China Railway Company, -are to do their work in the vicinity of Shanghai, Soochow, Chinkiang, Nanking and Hangchow during the next morth, returning to Japan at the end of November, the paper said. The artists who arrived were Mr. Shuzan Tobita, Mr. Shinsui Ito, and Mr. Sanryo Sakai, all of Tokyo, and Mr. Shoko Kamikura, Mr. Yoson Ikade, and Mr. Chosei Miwa, all of Kyoto, the "Mainichi" stated. Mr. Makoto Den, vice-president of the Central China Railway Company, accompanied the group to Shanghai.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.