BOUND FOR AUSTRALIA
DEPARTURE OF JAPANESE SWIMMERS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received November 16, 11.40 p.m.) TOKYO. November 16. The swimmers Kiyokawa and Sakagami sailed to-day for Australia. They are confident of holding their own. Representatives of the Boy Scout movement also sailed, taking gifts for the scouts of Sydney and Melbourne, a gigantic hollow paper carp, which is the Japanese symbol for the manly spirit to overcome all obstacles, and which is flown from poles by millions of householders throughout Japan at the boys’ festival on May 5.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19959, 17 November 1934, Page 17
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90BOUND FOR AUSTRALIA Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19959, 17 November 1934, Page 17
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