Last month the Japanese Army announced that it had attained its objectives in South China, and withdrew to garrison at Nanning. When the soldiers left their northernmost outpost in Pinyang, they left behind a curious placard. Last week a picture of a Japanese soldier hanging this message under the shelled gateway to the Pinyang County Government buildings reached the U. S. The notice was written in miserable Chinese, but was polite as an invitation to tea under the cherry trees. Literal but less illiterate translation:
THE GIVING BACK OF PINYANG
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