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its charter,

It is just possible that Mr. Kato'a

additional appointment is the first stage in transferring

him from the semi-political Development Company to the

more purely economie Power Company, so as to make room

at the head of the former for a military mani but since

the criticism as at its height five months ago, and the

General Meeting has been allowed to pass off with

apparently no reference to impending presidential changes,

it seems more reasonable to supose that for the prsent

there will be no changes in the management, and that

there will be no suđřen change in the policy of the

company, though doubtless the voice of the military vill

gradually become more powerful as time goes on.

British Consulate,

TAMQUI.

July 11th, 1939

$. Consul.