'Tokyo, Feb. 18 Major Hiroyuki Yoshino, assistant military attache to the' Japanese Embassy in China, was to-day relieved of his post—Domei. all existing Parties and the organiza tion of a single powerful Party.
The "Hochi Shimbun" believes that the movement for Great Japanism recently launched by Baron Hiranuma, President of the Privy Council, Gen. Sadao Araki, a former Minister of War; Mr. Ryutaro Nagai, Minister of Communications, and Mr.
Suchiko Shiono, Minister of Justice, also has a bearing on yesterday's events, The "Kokumin Shimbun" points out that the division of opinion in political circles regarding the National Mobilization Bill has given a powerful impetus {o tne movement for the organization of a new political party.
The agitation for disbandment of existing political parties, observes the "Kokumin Shimbun," ix older, and stronger in the Seiyukai camp than in the Minseito fold—Reuter.
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