Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-30 | Page 2 | High Japanese Officer Fired by Pershing

High Japanese Officer Fired I By P Pershing TOKIO June 30 Nearly lP-Nearly P Nearly 30 years ago an American army captain on duty in Tokio discharged n R Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese youth who was trying to hold down a Job as the captains captain's translator and general handy min man Hes hopeless said the American after giving the young man a few days' days trial and md fi finding his knowledge of English insufficient That captain John J. J Pershing b became became be be- came commander in chief chic of ot the American expeditionary forces Inthe in inthe the world war wor and general of the armies ar ar- ar mies of or the United States The youth he fired tired Koki Hirota became foreign foreign for for- ei eign n minister of or Japan Mr Hirota told this talc tale on himself him for or the entertainment of fellow guests at a recent official dinner in m Tokio Joseph Clark Grew the American ambassador who was wm pre present said he lie intended to write General Pershing about it When you do the foreign minister minis minis- ter told him please tell the general my English is still as bad as it was then