The Archive · 1940

Snow Cloaks Nanking

Nanking, Jan. 21.

Closked in, on eight-inch blanket of snow, Nanking today presented an unusual' appearance, The Purple Mountain, where the mavsclenm of Dr. Sun Yatsen is situated, loomed silvery in the dis tance, while the snow lent new dignity to the severe Ines of the granite cenotaph to Japanese war dead out side the Chunghwa Gate, Japanese soldiers, off duty, spent their Sunday reminiscing of childhood days at home as they built snowden plazas and other places within the The snow, which began falling yosterday morning, continued today. Old residents said it was the heaviest fall Ju seven or eight years.—Domel.

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