Shanghai, May 1.
The successors to Rear-Admiral Tadgo Honda, former Chief of the Naval" Spectal Service Section, and Rear-Admiral Denshichi Ohkochi, former Commander of the Japanese Special Naval Landing Party, were announced yesterday morning on the assumption of command by Vice-Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese China Sea Fleet, Rear-Admiral Honda will be succeeded by Rear-Admiral Naokuni Nomura, who is expected to arrive' in Shanghai shortly. Rear-Admiral Ohkochi will be succeeded by Rear-Admiral Yoshinobu Shishido, who arrived here yesterday aboard a warship. ed, He was present at the first con= ference between officials of the two governments in' Peiping.
Negotiations lowly but steadily" for some time, he said, because both governments have different political and economic problems which need to be smoothed out in paving the way for. their amalgamation, Japanese Admiral Calls
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