JAP MILITARISTS

Grey River Argus, 14 August 1935, Page 5

JAP MILITARISTS

MURDER OF ARMY HEAD. REFORMS RESENTED. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) TOKIO, August 12. Major-General Nagata, Director of Military Affairs,. died as a result of an attack by a Lieutenant-Colonel of his staff, who after a heated argument, drew his sword and cut down Nagata. It is believed that a dispute arose over Nagata’s report on Hayashi’s policy, with regard to the extreme Nationalist feeling in certain sections of the Army. General Nagata was assassinated in a room at the War Office. Colonel Limi was seriously wounded in attempting to protect his chief. The assailant was arrested, but bis name is not revealed. LONDON, August 12. “The Times’s” Tokio correspondent says: The public connects the sabring of Nagata with the recett wholesale changes in the army person neh for the details of which he was officially responsible. Attacks against politicians and offi cia’s are no but this is the first occasion an officer has been attacked. This breach of discipline in the army, priding itself on loyalty, makes the most painful impression, and is regarded as proving the necessity for Hayashi’s drastic changes.