The Archive · 1941

Roll of Honour Read

Present at this ceremony were M. de Margerio and Captain A. Plessis, President of the Logion of War Veterans in Shanghai. The latter took an active part in the ceremony Jat the cemetery, reading out, the roll call of those' who had sacrificed their lives for France.

The scene then shifted to the It was admitted in the now ré= gime's press circles last night that Nanking had not issued any orders for taking over the foreign cotton mills" in" Shanghai, Nanking was investigating the matter, it was said, grounds of the French Consulate. General. To the notes of massed bugles. the tricolour was unfurled. The salute was taken by M. Cosme, de Margerie, Col. Eissautier, Com. mander of French Fores in China.

Commander R. de St. Georges. Commander of French Naval Forces in

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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