Tokyo, June 3.
A further change in the Japanese Cabinet was announced this morning when, as expected, the appointment was gazetted of It-Gen. Seishiro Itagaki to be Minister of War in succession to Gen. Gen Sugiyama, who resigned, Gen. Itagaki, who has been in command of a Japanese division which took part in the operations in the Hsuchowfu area, was previously vice Chief-of-Staff of the Kwantung Army. He arrived in Tokyo yesterday by air from China, Gen. Itagaki's appointment tò his new post signifies the full success of Prince Konoye's reconstruction of his Cabinet:
Gen. Itagaki, who is considered a men of outstanding ability, becomes one of the youngest Ministers of War in Japan's history. - He is understood to be in favour of very vigorous prosecution of the Japanese camipaign in China, aiming at a rapid advance on Hankow and the "quickest possible overthrow of the Chiang Kai-shek regime."
Gen, Sugiyama has been appointed a member of the Supreme War Council—Reuter.
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