A farewell party in honour of Reer-Admiral Yoshinobu Shishido, former Commander of the Japanese Special Naval Landing Party, was held at the Nippon Club at 6 o'clock on Tuesday evening, according to the "Tairiku Shimpo" yesterday morning.
Present at the party were Mr. Yoshiaki Miura, Japanese Consul General; Mr. Masusaburo Amano, President of the Japanese Residents' Corporation; Major-Gen. Yoshiharu Takeshita, Chief of the Japanese Army Special Service—Section; Major-Gen. Sanetaka Kusumoto, Vice-Director of the Central China Liaison Office of the Asia development Board; and Mr. Fu Siao-en. "Mayor" of the Shanghai Special Municipality.
Rear-Admiral Shishido has been assigned to the Kure Naval Base.
Rear-Admiral Seiji Taketa, newly appointed Commander of the Naval Landing Party, arrived here on the Shanghai Maru on Tuesday afternoon.
Rear-Admiral Taketa recalled that he served with a naval landing party here eleven years ago.
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