"MEMENTO OF VISIT"
A MISSIONARY'S LOSS
Colonel Yamada, officer commanding the Japanese forces in South China, recently visited a missionary compound to discuss the question of carrying on the hospital.
Colonel Yamada said that his original intention was to ask the missionaries to leave the hospital, but as it, like the Japanese army, was for China's good, it could remain—on certain conditions. The two most difficult conditions were that the motor car should not be used and that no visits should be paid to the neighbouring villages. The Japanese colonel also said that he would value the receipt of any information regarding Chinese forces that the missionaries could obtain from patients. •He went off expressing goodwill and carrying to his car two of the missionary's most prized pot plants. "They would be a nice memento of his visit." he said. Such are the conditions prevailing in South China.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24733, 9 October 1941, Page 9
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