Tokyo, Nov, 22.
Extensive changes in the personnel of the Army. to be announced on December 1, were approved by. the Emperor this afternoon, at an inter= view with Gen, ¥. Kawashima, the War Minister.
Three full general and two leu tenant-generals will become members of the Supreme War Council. These Include Lieut-Gen, Prince Yasuhiko Osaka, Commander of the Imperial Guard Division, and Lieut-Gen, Prince Naruhiko Higashikunl. Com: mander of the Fourth Division.
Gen. K, Uyeda, Commander of the Korean Garrison and one of the most influential oticers in the Army, was also among the five appointees, He Tost toes on one foot in Shanghai, in the Hongkew Park Lombing in 1932, following the Shanghai hostilities, in which he commanded the Ninth Division, Lieut-Gen, 'T, Hashimoto, former Vice-Minister of War. who is now attached to the General Staff, was appointed to head the Imperial Guard Division, He has just returned from a tour of Formosa and China, Lieut-Gen. K. Shimomoto, ' Commander of the Eighth Division, who has been ordered to be attached te the headquarters of the Third Division, was during the Shanghai Inident, head of the Kurume Mixed Brigade, which fought the Chinese forces.
Col, 7, Sakai, Chief of Staff of the Japanese Forees in North China, will ibe ordered attached to the Army General Staff and succeeded by Col, Nagami, of the headquarters of the Kwantung Army.—Rengo.
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