General Matsui Issues Order at Nanking Service Nanking, Feb, 7.
In ihe solemn atmosphere following a memorial service for Japanese emeers and men killed inaction, General Iwane Matsui, Commander: incChiet of the Fapanese Expedition. ary Force in Central China, to-day instructed his commanders to tighten discipline in their units in order to "enhance the prestige of the Imperiat Army:
Among the high officers so address-od on the wind-swept Nanking Parade Ground "was Lieutenant-General Prince Yasuhiko Osaka, a member of the Imperial family, Speaking at length on the deter. rmination of the Japanese forces In the duco of the prospect of lengthy has tilities, General Matsui called the attention of his subordinates to. the necessity of putting an end to various reports affecting the prestige of the Japanese troops, This action, wald to be unprecedentthe annals of the Japanese Army, was taken in the face of recur ring adverse comment on reported caches of discipline by Japanese
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