Portfolio to be Taken Over by Mr, S. Hara Tokyo, Sept. 10, Mr, Tasuku Egi, the Minister of Rei Wakatsuki, the Prime Railways in the Cabinet of Baron
Minister, to-day resigned his portfolio. Mr. Egi submitted his resignation to Baron Wakatsuki this morning and at eleven o'clock the Prime "Minister proceeded to the Imperial Palace and recommended to the Emperor the appointment of Mr, Shujito, Hara to become the Minister of Railways.
Mr. Hat hho becomes the Minister of Railways Baron Wakatsuki will assume the duties of the Minister of Overseas Affairs as well as those of the Mr. Bgi has been ill for some time and his illness was advanced as the reason for his resignation. A fow weaks ago Mr. Egi, one of the leading political figures in the majority Minseito Party, was a patient at the Tokyo Imperial University Hospital, Sept. 11.
Although his continued illness was advanced as the reason for his thr Minister of Railways it became apparent t0- day that Qfe. Tasuka gi lett the Minseito. Party Cabinet of Baron Reijiro Wakatsoki to help andthe friction atising over the proposal to abolish the Department of Over-Seas altairs-Unived Pres
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