Lieut.-Gen. Kanichiro Tashiro, until last week the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Forces in North China, died here at 10.50 o'clock this morning, of complications setting in after an attack of appendicitis, the headquarters of the Japanese Garrison announced to-day.
Funeral services for the deceased officer will be held at the garrison commander's official residence in the Japanese Concession beginning at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon.
Known as an officer of few words and an expert on Chinese conditions, Lieut-Gen. Tashiro had many clo: acquaintances among the leaders in North China He gained prominence, when chief of staff of the Japanese ex peditionary force to Shanghai in 1932, he negotiated the armistice that was to end the 40-day "war."
Born in a Samurai family in October, 1881, the late officer began his career when appointed a second lieutenant in 1904, the frst year of the Russo-Japanese War.
He served successively as commandant of the 30th. Infantry Regiment, a section chief in the Army General Staff, and commander of the 27th Brigade.
Appointed a lieutenant-general in August 1930, he was named mili tary attache to the Japanese Embassy in China in 1932 after the Shanghai hostilities.
He later served as the commander of the Japanese gendarmerie in Manchoukuo and in Tokyo, being Promoted commander in chief of the augmented Japanese garrison in North China last summer.
He was decorated with the Order of the Golden Kite, and the Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class. He also held the Third Class Order of Wen Hu of China.
He is survived by a widow, two sons and two daughters; a brother and a sister~Domei,
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