Jan. 24.
Japan loses a faithful servant of her Empire in the resignation jof General Sadao Araki who has been Minister of War since the fall of the Wakatsuki Cabinet in December, 1931. General Araki's serious illness has evidently /made it impossible for him to retain office. He is not an old /man, Perhaps relief from his official responsibilities will enable him to regain his health that, in due course, he may once more give the nation his guidance. When he was suddenly chosen as a_ divisional commander to succeed General Minami he was little known to
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