"Pacification Work"
Crowds of Chinese stopped in the streets at about 10.30 yesterday morning to watch a Japanese seaplane which was circling over the Settlement and French Concession. After the plane had attracted a considerable amount of attention among the populace below, packets of leaflets Were tossed out to flutter down into Settlement territory. The leaflets contained advertisements of the "Pacification River Police Academy" which is recruiting cadets by examination. The River Police is under the Ministry of Pacification of the "Reformed Government" at Nanking and the academy is scheduled to open classes on June 1.
The advertisement states that the academy wants to recruit cadets and junior pupils. Those who wish to take the examination in order to become cadets must be graduates of junior middle schools, and higher primary graduates may apply for Junior classes. The ages are fixed between 16 and 25.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.