Visit To Japan
MISS LEILA BRIDGMAN. Miss Leila Bridgman, national general secretary of the Y.W.C.A. of Australia, arrived in Sydney last montn after attending the World Council of the Y.W.CA. in Hangchow, China, and a visit to Japan. Miss Bridgman was a Japanese prisoner of war in Batavia during the war. ' When in Japan on this trip Miss Bridgman spoke at a public meeting in Tokio at the Prime Minister’s residence. An audience of 3000 Japanese heard Miss Bridgman’s story of her internment. Japanese women were particularly anxious to catch up on news of the world for the past eight years, Miss Bridgman said. “I think that the hope of Japan lies in her women,” she said. During her stay in China, Miss Bridgman found that the cost of a night at a hotel was a quarter for a million dollars. "One thousand dollars equalled ore penny, and 140 worth of notes completely filled a boot box," she said.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 19 January 1948, Page 7
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