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Show JAPANESE CABINET BLOCKEDBY ARMY TOKIO, Jan. 25 UP) The efforts of General Kazushige Ugaki to form a new cabinet and end Japan's grsve political situation were' reported re-ported today to be blocked by army opposition. The Japanese press declared the army has refused to name a1 war minister for the Ugaki government, automatically creating a deadlock. Japanese law requires a general officer of-ficer on the active list must hold that cabinet post. General Ugaki, former governor general of Korea, accepted his emperor's em-peror's command to form a government govern-ment after a dramatic midnight ride from his home at Nagaoka. Once a peddler of vegetables, Ugaki Is now regarded among the empire's most brilliant administrators. administra-tors. He always has been understood under-stood to be friendly toward the political po-litical parties whose bitter attacks on the army brought the present crisis to a head j |