Mr. Tani to Be Ambassador At Large in China Tokyo, Feb. 9, The Foreign Ofc is reported to have changed its plan. to despatch the Japanese diplomat, Mr. Masayuki Tani, to North China, Instead Mtr. Toni will be sent to Shanghat as Abnssador-at-Large in control diplomatic affairs, with seniority over Mr, Shinroktire Hidaka, Coun-chlor of the Japanese Embassy and present Charge <'Affaires in China.
Mr. Tani has been Minister to Austr: s, has served in the Embassy in France in 1033, wag Couneil-Jor to the Japanewe 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.
Mr, Shiratori, who recently sot forth what he believed to be the proper peace terms in the present "China affair," has been instructed te leave Japan on February 18, on a month's tour of North China.—Reuter
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