CRISIS IN JAPAN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1616, 6 December 1912, Page 5

CRISIS IN JAPAN.

THE CABINET RESIGNS. By MosraDli—Press Association—Copyright Toklo, Decembef. i. The Cabinet has resigned in consequence of the Prime Minister's inability to find a successor to Baron Uyehara, Minister .for War, who resigned owing to differences with bis colleagues as to the government of Korea. . Prince Taniigata, President of the Privy Council, refused to take the vacant portfolio, and tho militarists boycotted the Cabinet. The press condemns Prince Tahiagftta'S attitude. . The Tokio . correspondent of "The Times", in a telegram on September 29, stated; "A orisis is threatened in the Cabinet over the proposal to establish two permanent military divisions in Korea. The War Ministor, backed by Count Terauchi, by Mr. Yomagata, the Civil Governor-General, and by the bureaubrats, refuses to yield an inoh to the, argument that the proposal ib incompatible with tho Ministerial programme' of retrenchment. It is reported that ho has tendered his resignation, but that the final deeision.will.be left to a Council of Ministers and the Genro held in the presence of the Emperor. The Minister emphatically .asserts that the measure is necessitated, by the present conditions, especially the constant military expansion of Russia."