NEW CLUB OPENED
LEAVE CENTRES IN JAPAN
Official News Service Rec. 8 p.m. KURE, June 1. With the opening of the Takasagoya Hotel at Beppu, as a club for visiting servicemen and quarters for the permanent staff of Beppu leave centre, the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces are now operating a big group of leave hostels in Japan. Three of these are at Beppu, one of the most popular thermal regions on the island of Kyushu. Another Japanese inn has been taken over in the heart of Kyoto and is being used as an annex to the Otsuya inn, which is now able to accommodate 65 men each week instead of 35. Altogether, 450 of all ranks of 8.C.0.Fs are now able to go on leave each week. This does not include Tokio, to which 120 go each week in addition to the guard unit.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26479, 5 June 1947, Page 7
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144NEW CLUB OPENED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26479, 5 June 1947, Page 7
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