With simplicity as the dominating note, local Japanese yesterday. ob-Served the samand anniversary of the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese con~ Mile. The principal function was the service at the Shanghai Shrine, where Fesidents gathered at 11 o'clock in the morning to observe a one-minute silence for the war dead, Japanese schools, factories, banks, business firms and' other civilian organizations held individual assemblies of their statis to listen to a reading of the Imperial Rescript granted on the occasion of the first anniversary of the conflict, The articles of the National Spiritual Mobilization move-mont were recited by those present.
One-course meals were served at restaurants and in homes, while a tay campaign was conducted on the streets of Hongkew and Yangtszepoo by members of the Shanghai Japan-ce "Women's Emergency Committee, Contributions to the National De~ fence Fund were also sought of, their staffs by various Japanese orginiza~ tions. Empty bottles and cans, serap iron, tin fall, old blankets, discarded clothing, newspapers and' magazines were collected' at various Japanese schools to be sent to Japen for reprocessing, Major Tsuned Yano, staff ofter of the Japanese Army Shanghai Defence Force headquarters, broadcast an address aver the radio at 7 o'clock yesterday evening,
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