Tokyo, Nov. 20.
The Imperial General Headquarters have been established at the Imperial Palace, if is officially announced to-day.
The Headquarters have been set up. according to the spokesman, with a view to placing the Army and Navy General Staffs on a war footing for a full-scale operation of all arms to meet the threatened protracted hostilities in China, and to unify, under the supreme command of the Emperor, the hitherto divided control of the Army and Navy General Staffs.
The spokesman categorically denied that the Headquarters combined the General Staffs and the Cabinet, or that it was the precursor of a War Cabinet—Reuter,
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