Shanghai, Apr. 21 At the Japanese press conference yesterday, Mr. Okumura, Secretary of the Embassy, who has been acting, as embassy spokesman, bade fare well to the assembled local journal lists and foreign correspondents. He sold:—"I reget on this occasion to have (0 say goodbye to all members who have attended this. conference, T am leaving on Saturday to rejoin the Gaimusho. Until the arrival of my successor, Mr. Okazaki, Japanese Consul-General-al-targe, will aet os wish to express my sincere thanks for the genuine friendship: which has developed und for the sincere ce-operation which has been extended to me during the last four or five troubled months. 1 shall cherish most dearly my experiences at these conferences as the most instructive of my stay here.
hope, and Tam sure that T shall renew our friendships among more delightful conditions which I am con-Adent will prevail again in this eountry.
Mr. Okumura then thanked his colleagues, Maj-Gen. Furuja, Cot. Nagai, Omer: Isobe and Me, Hone On do half of the assembled jour-rialists, Mr. F. Hf, Glimpf, head of the Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau, responded.
'AL the conclusion of the confer ence Mr, Okumura, entertained the gathering and the invited Consular representatives in the lounge of the Broadway Mansions.
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