General Moshe Cohen, former adviser to Dr. Sun Yat Sen, first president of the Chinese Republic, and to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, arrived in Montreal yesterday among a group of 221 Canadians repatriated from Japan on the exchange shin S.S. Gripsholm.
It is expected that General Cohen may return to Western Canada where he first made contact with Chinese and where he organized the Chinese Labor Battalion during the first World War. He served in France with that unit.
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