Japanese Army Officer Runs Amuck Tokyo, Mar. 25.
Running muck with' a drawn sabre, a military officer in uniform, Said to be suffering from a nervous breakdown, killed one passenger and Injured six others, in a second class coach of an express train pulled into the Yokohama station Thursday night, according to a War Mice communique issued here today.
Arrested by the gendarmerie, omer was identified as Takeo Kitahara, the announcement said. He was returning from Man choukuo to Tokyo to assume a home ost. Apparently. suffering from a. nervous" breakdown, he is now lurider observation, the communique stated, LU-Gen, Masataka Yamawanl, Vice Minister of War, expressed. regret for the untoward incident, while the War Minister, Lt. Gen. " Seishiro Itagaki, sent a pany. of military surgeons to treat the victims, "The War OMmee hay paid the victims a solatium for their injuries, the communique safd—Domel, Javaw's Cabinet will soon strengthened when the Premier, Baron Kilehiro Hiranums, will fil two vacant porfollos in the Over= seas and Communieatons Ministries now concurrently held by the Commerce Minister, Mr, Yoshiaki, Batta, fand the Justice Minister, Mr. Suehiko Shiono, respectively, the "Asahi" newspapers reported, Mr. Harumachi Tanabe, Chief Secretary of the Cabinet will join the Hiranuma Cainet as a Minister, while Prince Ayamaro Konoye will retain hig ofice of Minister without Portfolio," although he desires to resign at the earliest opportunity."
Prince Konoye declined, feeling that it would not be dignified for the President of the Privy Council to undertake such a mission. He told friends that if he had been only a Cabinet Minister without portiollo—that is his other public office—he would have consented, Army Strongly Critlelzed Prince Konoye has been persuaded to remain in the Cabinet because of hhis immense popularity among, the people. There is no military figure to match him in personal" appeal among the Japanese, The Army has been criticized strongly because of its inability to
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.