First Volumes Tell of Shanghai Fighting Tokyo, Jan. 5.
Hopeful of completing the frst volume by the third anniversary of Japenese naval activities around Shanghai, compilers have started work on a book, "The Story of Patriotic and Loyal Soldiers in the China Incident" the Ministry of Navy announced today.
The voluminous work will list the names of all Japanese naval soldiers killed in the China confüct, their biographies and fighting records.
The first volume will record the names of the naval officers and men killed from August 9 to August 23, 1937 during activities in the Shanghai area.
The volumes will be distributed among the families of the dead Japanese naval men and officers and in Japanese Naval circles.
Captain Shoichiro Kita is serving as editor-in-chief in charge of compilation of the first volume.—Domei.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.