While engaged in taking pictures of Japanese mopping-up operations in the delta region on the left bank of the West River in Kwangtung, Mr.
Shunjiro Shiroki, 24, official photographer attached to the Japanese Expeditionary Force in South China, was killed in action last Friday, the Japanese press reported yesterday.
Born in Tokyo, the late Mr. Shiroki is survived by his mother, the papers stated. He was employed in the Japanese Cabinet's Press Bureau before joining the army as a cameraman in September of last year.
He was the first Japanese photographer to enter Hankow with the Japanese vanguard unit. When he first joined the Japanese Expeditionary Force in Central China he followed a Japanese detachment in the attack on Kiykiang, the dailies said. He was transferred to South China in February. been contemplating something drastic, the boy placed a chair against the door, climbed up, and to his horror saw how his mother replaced the Positions Vacant
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