An item reported that as a result of an initiative of the Japanese departments of war and navy 400 ensigns and 200 officers were dismissed from the Japanese service to enter the service of the state Manchuria. Another six hundred men from Japanese army would enter the Manchurian service in October and November.(1)
Note
1. Japan invaded on 19 September 1931 Manchuria established the puppet state Manchuko which existed until the end of the Second World War.
