Tokyo, Sept. 9.
The selection. by the Supreme War Council of General Takashi Hishikari to succeed the late, General Nobuyoshi Muto in Man-Churia has been endorsed by the Press and public of Japan as a very wise one and as a case where the choice has fallen right man for the right place. Apart from the fact that General Hishikari is. he laidest General on the active list and thus has the claim of seniority for. this post which, for some time yet! to come, will necessarily have to te! fied by a amirays man, Ce) selection was also made on the Jercund that he, more than anyone else entitled to All the onerous post. [occupied by the late General Muto, fs best fitted for the very responsible and arduous task to which he has been appointed, Manchuria is being regarded here as the lynch-pin vivid phrase of Churchill) of Japanese. policy in North-Eastern Asia and the part that General Hishikari will have to. play, like the role which fell on General Muto, will include a number arduous For one thing "ambassador to in reality, with." extensive In addition to this, same time commande Kwantung Army (which now may be taken to mean all the Japanese forces in "Manchoukuo" as well as the native levies being raised and trained by the Japanese) and Governor-General of the Kwantung Leased Territory.
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