Japanese Companies Prov Tokyo, Aug. 9.
Most Japanese commercial and industrial firms are maintaining en full pay the members of their staffs who have been drafted for service with the Army in North China, a, War Office survey showed to-day.
Less liberal were the Government offices, which have placed drafted officials on the suspended list, the investigation showed.
Preparing against a prolongation of this state of affairs, many firms' are making extra allowances to the families of their staff members now serving with the colours—Domei.
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