NEW CABINET

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22690, 18 August 1945, Page 5

NEW CABINET

JAPANESE MINISTRY CIVILIAN PREDOMINANCE YONAI’S NAVY PORTFOLIO i (Unft**<J Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrigut) f (Received Aug. 18, 12.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 17 The new Japanese Cabinet, with Prince Higashi-Kuni as Prime Minister, has been formally installed. The Foreign Minister is Shigemitsu, who will also have charge of a new Ministry of Greater East Asiatic Affairs. Shigemitsu was Ambassador in London when Britain declared war on Japan in 1941. Admiral Yonai, who was Navy Minister in the last Cabinet, holds the same post in the new one. Prince

Konoye, a former Prime Minister, becomes Minister Without Portfolio, also Vice-Premier. Two other members of Suzuki’s Cabinet included in the new Ministry are Naoto Kohiyama, who continues as Minister of Transport, and the former Minister of Information, Taketora Ogata, who becomes Chief Secretary. Other Cabinet posts, according to the Domei news agency, are as folA lows:— Minister of Finance.—Juichi Tsushima. Minister of Justice.—Dr. Chuzo Iwata. Minister of Agriculture and Commerce.—Kotaro Sengoku. Minister of Education.—Kenzo Matsumuru. Home Minister.—lwao Yamasaki. Minister of Munitions.—Chikuehei Nakajima. Chief of the Legislative Bureau.— Naoki Murase. Posts For Civilians Domei points out that all portfolios except War and the Navy have been given to civilians. The Tokyo radio announces the resignations of a Vice-Minister, Hirokichi Nadao, from the presidency of the People’s Volunteer Corps, and Ryo Mizuike, director of the Police Bureau, also Kingo Machimura. chief 6f the Tokyo police. The Emperor personally, without the customary approval of his advisers, chose the new Prime Minister, said the Domei news agency. The Cabinet was in at the Palace this morning and returned to the Prime Minister’s residence for its first meeting. APPEAL REJECTED NORWEGIAN EXECUTED (Received Aug. 18, 11 a.m.) OSLO, Aug. 17 The Quisling Reidar Haaland, member of the Gestapo and torturer, the first Norwegian war criminal, sentenced to death by the Supreme Court, was executed today after King Haakon had rejected an appeal.