Tokyo, Aug. 16.
'The commission appointed to study and to recommend measures for effecting a revision of the army' system held-its first general session this morning.
Tt will be recalled that when th present Minister of War, General 'Ugaki, held office in 1925, many important army reforms' were jearried out, it divisions were disbanded, there was an expansion.
the army air, service, and weapons and equipment' generally were improved. For these und other reasons General Ugaki's resumption of Cabinet rank was welcomed by all the Japanese newspapers, and it was confidently expected that he would effect farther re-organization while fat the same time curtailing military expenditure, When the Commission, which has now been formed, was first suggest: ed, it was stated that among other objects to be attained should be a reduction in the period of colour. service, an increase in mechanisation, a further improvement weapons and, if possible, a reduction in_personnel In addressing the first meeting of Jef the Commission this morning, General "Ugaki emphasized the necessity of the members taking the industrial conditions of the country into proper consideration in thei deliberations. "He then outlined the principal points for their consider tion and, as had been forecast, these included' the question of increased mechanization and all-round modernization for the dual purpose securing economy and eficlenes mith which they formerly traded. There are a number of grievances, charges of short-weighing, and 20 on. Being the stronger organization, the wholesale hongs managed to get the president of the retailers association picked up by the police. The two sides are still at loxgerheads, and neither has gotten the other to yield an inch of ground.
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