Prayers For Souls of Eels
Received Monday, 7 p.m. TOKIO, May 30. Restaurant owners and gourmets lield memorial serviees today for the souls of 25,000,000 eels. The eels were eaten last year in Tokio. Two hundred cafe owners and eaters stood reverently as Buddhist priests chanted prayers. After the serviees they dumped 4000 haby eels into the . Sumida River — presumably to grow up, he caught and eaten. t WWVWWWVAtfWV^VWVWVVVWVS^VvV
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 June 1948, Page 5
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