The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-03
New Orleans Times-Democrat.

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 Admiral. Togo is known around the Worid as the Nelson of Japan--althougn
 Fighting Bob He has demonstrated his right to the title of one of the worlds greatest sea fighters. He won In which he fired the first shot and participated In a number of bloody bat ties: Cool collected. reserved, undem- old sea-dos" about Togo Rather he is the schoiar in action. with every need ed Information as to his profession at tho strategy of nRvei oSsl fisStlus erado and us- % ing the murderous weapons of modern W,aarfare with stern. quiet. resistless de- Iinedration. He strikes when, he is Admiral Togo is a small, stodgy man, put wiry and ttreless. He is flfty-five years old, and, like Oyama and Nogi, is ance. He Is not of princely or noble birth, but Is a simple gentleman, a sa- mural of the great Satsuma clan, as so
 Admiral Togo received a great part of his education at the British Naval Col iege, Greenwich. where he went through the regular courses of instruction cur rent some thirty years ago
 In 1894, when war broke out between China and Japan, he was In command or the Naniwa, cruiser of S,6S0 tons, one of the vessels composing what was then known as the first flying squadron of the Japanese navy. During the war he greatly distinguished himself and earned the reputation of being a' first
 In the course of the war Togo saw g great deal of actual fighting, so he is was present at the battle of Phung- do, at the battle of Haiyang, took part in the bombardment of Tangchow, and at weihaiwei of all that was left of the Chinese fleet Nor did his ship. the Naniwa, pass entirely scatheless , throws throws these ordeals though 1t re- re- fame of Togo Heihachiro grew; he was known as a man of resolution and re- source, most of all as hard and de-
 After the war Togo was raised to the rank of rear admiral and promoted to the. third command in the Japanese
 When the elder statesmen, that pow erful coterie of five men who are the Emperor's chief advisers in national Sso ther pan of fer the impending war with Russia, the question came up as to wno should command the fleet that would be sent
 Send Togo" Marquis Ito Is .repSe : at the Yalu. He will strike first and hard at Port Arthur"
 Rear Admiral Uriu has played an im- portant part in the naval campaigns of the present war war, although his name snce sSa 6ss of oe% on %ss FeS ruary g, 1904. when he sunk the Va riag and the Korietz, He is Togo's division in the battle with Rojestven- sky.
 Uriu was born forty-seven years ago and entered the United States Naval of four years and graduating four teenth in class of 136 in 1881.
 Uriu spent one year at a preparatory tering Annapolis. where he perfected himself in the English language. When he entered the Naval Academy he was quired for participation in football and other athletic games of like character, where endurance and other qualities must be combined with great physical
 But with foils and saber he was a marvel Of dexterity, effectiveness, and grace. So frail in appearance was he, lift the tip of the heavy sabre from the foor. of the, fencing hall. but at the word 1t would flash around his headaln gerous, and there was not a student at the academy who was his master with the weapon: It is an inherited generations and centuries have made the sword their special weapon.
 After graduation. Uriu spent two yOdTS III ne reluTneu CO Japan and was a lieutenant in the Japanese Naval College at Tokio. In 1885 he was ordered to his ship in Corea- In 1888 he was attached to the general staff and detailed to the great dock yard at Yokosuka, as second in command. From 1893 to 1897 he was naval attache to the Japanese legation at Paris: Upon his return to Japan he commanded the cruiser Akitsushima. While he was commanding the armored cruiser Fooso in 1898 it sunk in collision. The cruis- CT afterwards was refoated, but Uriu
 In 1900 Uriu commanded ,as a rear admiral, the hattleship Yashima, the flagship of the fleet This Is proof that the loss of the Fooso did not seriously affect his promotion or reputation.
 At the beginning of the present war Uriu was ma& second in command of the Japanese Feet, and sailed from the port of Sasebo on the night of Febru- ary 5. 1904. 'Uriu. with the cruiser di- vision, left the main feet which was on its way tc Port Arthur, and steamed direct for Chemulpo harbor, where the Russian cruiser Variag and the gun boat Korietz were at anchor. The two Russian ships tried to escape, but were so badly damaged that they returned to harbor and were sunk.
 Uriu's name figures but little In the reports of the naval campaign of Port Arthur. because 1t Is Japanese policy to suppress the names of all of It's com manding officers on land and sea. It is known. however, that since the appear ance of the Russian fleet in the Far -