DISSENSION IN JAPAN

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21727, 9 March 1936, Page 11

DISSENSION IN JAPAN

CABINET UNPLEASING TO ARMY REFUSAL TO FILL WAR

PORTFOLIO

RETIREMENT OP GENERALS

(UNITED PRIM ASSOCIATION — COPIBIGNT.)

(Received March 8, 7.30 p.m.)

TOKYO, March 6

The army leaders consider that Mr Hirota’s tentative Cabinet gives too much influence to the heavy industries and renders it impossible to carry out the army’s military policy. The army intends to refuse to fill the portfolio of War unless Mr Hirota nominates other Ministers more to the army’s taste. Generals Araki, Abe, and Minami, all members of the Supreme Army Council, have retired. General Uyeda, commander of the Japanese forces at Shanghai in 1932, will replace General Minami as com-mander-in-chief of the Kwantung army, and Ambassador to Manchukuo. General Kawashima, Minister for War in the Okada Cabinet, has recommended his own retirement. A fierce conflict behind the scenes between the army and civil interests culminated in Count Terauchi’s withdrawal of his acceptance of the portfolio of War.