Tokyo, Oct. 20.
The Japanese Consulate-General at Canton, which has been entrusted to {the care of the French Consul-General of that city and guarded by. two French policemen since the beginning, of the hostilities, will be formally. reopened on November 3, the birthday anniversary of the Emperor /Melji, according to arrangements just completed by the Foreign Office.
Mr. Katsuo Okazaki will be the first Japanese Consul-General in the Jap* fanese-controlled city of Canton. Mr. [Okazaki is at present in Hongkong making the necessary preparations for proceeding to Canton.
'The Foreign Office is understood to have selected thirteen consular officials for Hankow, including Mr. Yoshiyuki Hanawa, the Consul-General now assigned' to Nanking, who will_assume the Consul-Generalship at Hankow. They will proceed to Hankow as soon as it is occupied by the Japanese forces. Twelve consular policemen also have been chosen—Domei.
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