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Over the cables from Tokyo flashed a single sentence: "After being ill with influenza for four days, Viscount Takaaki Kato, Premier of Japan, is dead...
...news of Viscount Kato's death, two completely dissimilar personalities flickered in the memory of diplomats familiar with Japan. First they recalled the silent, square-jawed Viscount himself ? direct, almost pugnacious, with the habit of rolling the sleeves of his kimono well above the elbow whenever work was to be done in the privacy of his home. The second personality that the diplomats recalled was the frail, timid-seeming man, who next to Admiral Togo was perhaps the greatest of Japanese naval strategists. He was Admiral Baron Tomasaburo Kato, Premier from 1922 until 1923, an actual...
Japanese Intervention. From Tokyo a cold decisive message clicked out over the cables: "By order of General M. Kawai, Chief of the Japanese General Staff, and with the consent of the Prince Regent of Japan and Premier Kato, 3,500 Japanese troops have been despatched to Mukden, [capital of the Chinese provinces of Manchuria]. This action is taken at the request of the consuls of the Great Powers at Mukden, who have asked protection for their nationals from the armies of the Chinese military leaders, Chang Tso-lin and Kiio Sung-lien, now attempting to engage each other...
After Finance Minister Hamaguchi had sat down, a Seiyukai Minister arose, said that his party, of which three members form part of the coalition Cabinet, could not support the Finance Minister's contentions. Premier Kato called upon the three Seiyukai Ministers to resign. They refused. To get rid of them, Premier Kato handed the Prince Regent the Cabinet's resignation. The Prince accepted the resignation and asked Premier Kato to form a new Cabinet, which he did merely by appointing three Kenseikai (Government) Party members to fill the places of the dropped Seiyukai members...
However, it is not thought likely that Premier Kato will die like a rat in a trap, but will dissolve the Diet and hold new elections, relying upon the 9,000,000 extra electors which he recently enfranchised (TIME, Apr. 6) to show their appreciation of his endeavors by voting for his (the Kenseikai) Party...