Word: shirakawa
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Troops. Three Japanese transports left Shanghai with 20,000 troops aboard last week, but 30,000 troops remained. Sufficiently remarkable were the farewell words of General Yoshinori Shirakawa to the embarking troops...
Seemingly General Shirakawa thought this "battle" would improve the morale of the Imperial troops. His own state of mind became more & more remarkable. Although the Occidental residents of Shanghai's International Settlement have recently seen whole shiploads of Japanese troops disembark in their Settlement, General Shirakawa took the position last week that all Japanese forces had disembarked outside the Settlement. "The Japanese army hopes," declared the General's official spokesman, "that its sacrificial effort to save the Settlement from gunfire is appreciated...
During the week General Baron Giichi Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan, called General Viscount Shirakawa into his Cabinet as War Minister, whereupon the pugnacious Viscount, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, immediately despatched 15,000 additional troops to Shantung. Thus it appeared certain that the present Japanese occupation and intervention will continue for some time...