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Smuggli g: Redemption of Small Coins From Oun Own Dairen, Apr. 29.
'A further resume in oficial circles here is promised by Mr. Rokuzo Takebe, recently appointed Director of the Kwantung Bureau, Hsinking, Who arrived here to make the usual Found of courtesy calls announcing. his assumption of office and to ask for general ce-operation, The most important early change, he declares. will be the abolition of the Dairen Civil Administration OMee which has functioned for the last 30 years, established in 1908 simulancously' with the Government of the Kwantung Leased Territory.
The Civil Administration OMmee, according to the most prevalent ver~ sion here. has outlived its original purpose, having to a large extent been Superseded by greatly altered con-Aitions following the creation of Manchoukuo. It was instituted upon the termination of the Russo-Japanese War as an adjunct of the Martial Law Government of the victorious Japanese Army in Manchuria and. was. commissioned to. handle purely elvillan matters, This administrative expedient somehow survived the Me fervening 30 years, due probably to fa characteristic lassitude for change.
'The exploit of 1931, which saw the birth of a new nation inextricably Bound' with the national "aspirations of the Japenese people, has already caused extensive alterations in the Sapaneso administrative system and policy in Manchoukuo, For, instance. the "'Number One Japanese" in Man choukuo no longer monopolizes all three of the most, imposing administrative titles, Ambassador, Commander-In-Chief of the Kwantung, 'Army and Governor of the Kwan: tung' Leased 'Territory. He is, today' only Ambassador and Com-
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