GRIM BATTLE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 74, 21 December 1937, Page 11

GRIM BATTLE

Japanese Army’s Higfi Command ACTION OF COLONEL Punishment For Order To Fire On Panay (Received December 20,» 8.20 p.m.) New York, December 20. Colonel Hashimoto personally ordered Japanese motor-launches to fire on the Panay, according to a report published in the “New York Times” from its correspondent at Shanghai. Colonel Hashimoto is using his political strength to evade punishment for his act. Thi s is resulting in ar grim battle at. the present time within the Japanese army’s High Command, with the officers wondering whether the Commander-in-Chief in China, General Iwane Matsui, dares to punish the colonel, who was a prime mover in the military coup in Tokio on February 26, 1936.

Apprehension is mounting in army and Government circles. If Colonel Hashimoto is not punished to the same degree as the Japanese Chief of Aerial Operations in China, Rear-Admiral Mitsunami, who has been recalled, all foreign Governments will feel that the heads of the Japanese Army are no longer responsible mid will follow President,Roosevelt’s example and address all protests to the Emperor. BURNED BY CHINESE Japanese Merchandise In Chicago (Received December 20, 5.40 p.m.) Chicago, December 20. At an anti-Japanese demonstration Chinese burned Japanese merchandise valued at approximately 10,000 dollars. Boy scouts fed the fire, which took place on a vacant section. The merchandise represented tiie stock of shops in the Chinatown area of a population of 8000. WASHINGTON ENVOY Career Of Mr. Saito

Mr. Hirosi Saito, th© Japanese Ambassador to Washington, is a graduate of the Tokio Imperial University. He was appointed attache to the embassy at Washington in 1911, and subsequently held posts at London, Seattle, and New York. He was chief of the Bureau of Information at the Foreign Office, Tokio, in 1929 and 1930, subsequently serving at the Embassies at London, Washington and The Hague. He lias been Ambassador to the United States since 1934. He was a member of the Japanese delegations to the Peace Conference, Paris, 1919; to the first Assembly of the League of Nations, 1920; the Washington Naval Conference, 1921-22; the London Naval Conference, 1930; the Disarmament Conference, Geneva, 1931-33; the Economic Conference, London, 1933. He is the author of a life of the late Mr. Ramsay MacDonald.