Joining the staff of the Tokyo Foreign Office in opposing plans to create a Trade Ministry with diplomatic powers, Consul-General Yoshiaki Miura and 40 diplomatic officials and employees of the local Japanese Consulate-General cabled their resignations to the Foreign Office last night, says Domei.
Their action followed the resignations of more than 110 officials of the Foreign Office, Officials of the Consulate-General here were actuated by a desire to collaborate fully with the Tokyo Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by the fear that they would be unable io perform their duties under a "misdirected Government policy," they said.
Acting on: their own initiative, fifteen officials of higher rank with Mr. Miura and 26 junior officials resigned.
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