Show I J Jap ap Premier Friendly to toDe toS S De ILS Quits Qt ts tsI I- I f Jr Y Count Okuma to Resign w t- I in in F Favor Favo of Viscount V 11 Kato St Statesman esman W Vit tji Bolder Bolde N National Honal P Policy l y By A Associated Press TOKIO Oct O. tt 3 Tile The NI ill hl Nichi in an extra edition s that the cabinet cabinet cab ciU- inet met of Premi Prem er l t Okuma kuma has decided to resign Th The premier is said to have stated that he would recommend to the te h emperor the appointment appointment ap ap appointment of Viscount Takaaki Kato as his successor successor The Okuma c cabinet binet was formed in August of last year yr ar Its resign resignation ion had been expected for several months It was was was' sV by by the pre i r a speech last Ma May in which he in indicated he wp ld retire in favor of Viscount t Kato The premiers premier's premiers advanced age he age he is 78 y years ars old old has has been given as the reason for his de decision ision to resign al although although although al- al though it nag has also als been intimated ted he would woul l wi v. v mak- mak k way wora fora a man n 01 of Gup 1 h bil P w-em w n d f ei h policy of hi Wi country and has hafe been as assailed assailed as- as sailed sidled by the opposition for not adopting adopting adopt adopt- ing ins a more vigorous attitude toward China On many occasions he has ex expressed expressed expressed ex- ex pressed frie friendship for for the United States and in an interview several months ago said war between this country and Japan was impossible Most of his active life has been spent I in the public service Viscount Kato has served as foreign minister and to Great Britain He took a prominent part In Inthe Inthe inthe the negotiations which followed the presentation of the twenty-one twenty Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese demands on China and also in the discussion with Washington of the California land law |