VISCOUNT KATO DEAD.
GREAT JAPANESE LEADER.
TOKIO, January 27
Viscount Kato, whose retirement from the Prime Ministership of Japan was announced yesterday, died to-day.
The Cabinet had just appointed Mr Wakatsuki to succeed Viscount Kato, owing to the latter's illness.
LATER
HIS DEVOTION TO DUTY.
RESIGNATION OF CABINET
TOKIO, Jan. 28
Viscount Kato developed pneumonia on Wednesday night. He was untiring in his devotion to duty, despite medical advice, and this resulted in overstrain, leaving him no reserve strength to 'combat his illness. Cabinet formally resigned.
Mr Wakatsuki succeeds Viscounl Kato in the Presidency of the Kensa Kai or Government Party.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16711, 29 January 1926, Page 5
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