The Archive · 1939

Japanese Officers Here

Promoted Promotions of one grade in rank for four prominent Japanese Army officers in Shanghai were contained general orders published in Tokyo on Aug. 1, the "Shanghai Mainichi" reported yesterd would be tunable 0 cope. with He added that at the present time Britain was not in a position to ght Jit ans aron, proof of this having ween given by" the results Tokyo' conversations, They were: Col. Naotomo Watanabe, commandant of the local supply base, who became a major-general; Liewl.- Col. Itsuo Mabuchi, director of the the Settlement a and' Chinese Press Bureau, who was promoted to a full colonel; Major Kuji,'Takahas Maison officer on the Asia Development Board, who was raised to the Tank of Hiextenant colonel, and Capt. T. Nishihara, of the Press Bureau, who was advanced to the geode of Typhoid Beri-ber Chiolerate Relapsing and Paratyphoid Feve Measles, "typhus Fever 1 each,

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