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Show uu OUSTED OFFICERS GIVEN GOOD JOBS i TOKIO. Oct. 2 Fate seems to be smiling on the military officers who have been discharged in connection with the military reforms, many o? I them being appointed chiefs of vll-laK's, vll-laK's, towns and some of them even of cities The latest appointment reported re-ported of a p neral officer la the nomination of Lleut-Goneral Shlba-me, Shlba-me, chief of tho military affairs bureau bu-reau In the war offlc;, as mayor of, Mlto in Ibaragl prefecture The general's appointment to tho position, however, has given rise toV a serious controversy between tho general and tho local governor. According Ac-cording to the. papers, the general was first approached by the Kovernor with an offer of the mayoralty, but he i" pressed IiIh Intention of declining the portfolio and the governor reported to tho home department accordingly. Later, tho general changed his mind and accepted tho nomination. The local governor thus thinks hlmielf Insulted In-sulted and the home department has' 1 been called upon to settle th matter! |