Tokyo, Feb. 9.
The Foreign Office is reported to have changed its plan to despatch the Japanese diplomat, Mr. Masayuki Tani, to North China. Instead Mr. Tani will be sent to Shanghai as Abassador-at-Large in control of diplomatic affairs, with seniority over Mr. Shinrokuro Hidaka, Coun oiller of the Japanese Embassy and present Charge d'Affaires in China.
Mr. Tani has been Minister to Austria, has served in the Embassy in France and, in 1933, was Councillor to the Japanese Embassy in Manchoukuo.
Mr. Koki Hirota, the Foreign Minister, has tentatively decided to appoint Mr. Toshio Shiratori, former Minister to Sweden, chief of the proposed China Affairs Bureau, according to the "Nichi Nichi", to-day.
Mu Shiratori, who recently set forth what he believed to be the proper peace terms in the present "China affair," has been instructed ie leave Japan on February 18. on a month's tour of North China.—Reuter.
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