JAPAN'S NEW CABINET.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 138, 13 June 1922, Page 5

JAPAN'S NEW CABINET.

KATO TAKES PREMIERSHIP. WASHINGTON AGREEMENTS. TOKYO, June 12. Admiral Baron Tomosoburo Kato lias accepted the Premiership. His Cabinet is coming into power with the avowed purpose of carrying out the Washington Conference agreements in the spirit and letter. Admiral Kato agreed to form a Government ou condition that the army leaders reduced the estimated army budget, by 40,000.000 yen (£4,000,000). and adopt a general policy of retrenchment. Admiral Kato will have the support of the Soynkawai, the strongest party in the Diet, and of the Kcnkyukai, in the House of Peers. An earlier dispatch from Tokyo stated that as a result of popular feeling, which is running high against Admiral Kato, who is considered a reactionary in some quarters, the authorities are compelled to guard his residence.—(A. and N.Z.) THE NEW TEAM. UCHIDA RETAINS OFFICE. (Received 1 p.m.) TOKYO, June 12. Admiral Kato's Cabinet has been confirmed. It includes Count Yasuya Uchida, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Mr. Rentaro Mizuno, Minister of Home Affairs; Mr. Kitokuro lchiki, Minister of Finance; General Hango Yamanashi, Minister of War; Mr. Yeikichi Kamada, Minister of Education; Mr. Keijiro Okano, Minister of Justice; Mr. Ryoichiro Arai, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce; Mr. Masana Maeda, Minister of Communications, and Count Erkihu Oki, Minister of Railways.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) MR. HARAS MURDERER. (Received 10.30 a.m.) TOKYO, June 12. Noakata, the assassin of Mr. Hara, ex-Premier of Japan, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) The new Japanese Premier was at the head of the Japanese delegation to the Washington Conference. He was born 63 years ago, and joined the Japanese Navy as a midshipman at the nge of 12. He gained his captaincy in 1890. and lated became professor at the Naval Academy and sectional chief at the navy. In 1005 he became Vice-Minister of the Navy. During the Russo-Japanese war he was chief-of-staff to the Kamimura squadron, and was also chief-of-staff to Admiral Togo.. He has had lengthy political experience, and has proved himself a very astute and capable leader.