The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-17
New York Times.N

meters away from her was the now
famous Chinese transport called Kow-
shing. She was flying the British flag.
She had ignored the signals upon the
halyard of the Naniwa and the COM
mander of the Nippon cruiser whose
name was Togo Heihachiro, was silent
for more than a few minutes. After
that the Naniwa hoisted a string of
bunting and even till this day you can
read in history the message of the
pretty string of coIors:
Quit the ship or take the conse-
queRcesi'
In the kindlier days which followed
the ChinO-Nippon war of 1S94-5 a friend
of Admiral TOGO said TO him.
And how did YOU feel while you
stood upon the bridge staring at the
British fiag?"
4 knew made answer this gentIest
/ of fighters, that upon my action de-
pended the future of my country. per-
haps her very life. And Heihachiro
was quite prepared TO answer with his
Aboard the Mikasa, as she rounded
the shoulder of Tsushima and hove into
q far View Of the second Pacific feet
o. the car, on the twenty-seVenth day
of the flower moon, of the thirty-eighth
I year of Meiii. there was an admiral
{ whose sentiment could have been paint
ed with the above quoted words of ten
I years ago.
/ ma, in the famous reign of our Lord
Shimazu, there lived a Samurai; his
IrlendS knew him under the name Of
/ Togo kichizaemon. To him. on day
OF happy omen, in the fourth year of
the period called Kaei-or. as you
| would call it. 1851 of the Christian grace
] there came child. The mother
! faithful TO the time honored rites of
I the Samurai family, took the babe 10
/ the shrine of the guardian god Of the
| clan. She gave him the name of
! Heihachiro. Placing him upon the al
/ tar she dedicated the child for the ~de-
: Tense of the lands of the Gods and to
! the service of the prince"
]
Perhaps the 5000, 600 gods of Nippon
might have known; but they did not
say anything about it, and so it came
/ to pass that at that time there was
| none, even in the town under the very
| shadow of the castle of our Lord Shi-
! mazu who was aware of the birth of
| the prophet of steel who was in years to
| come fated to decide the question-and
I a pretty serious question this is, too,
| especially for the land of gods-whO
1 shall be mistress of the three seas-the
| Nippon, the yellow and the North Pa
| cifc.
Indeed. the child as he waxed in stat
! Ure and michief, was a very ordinary
| one: i'm. the clan of Satsuma there were
[ hundreds quite as bad as he. With his
milk. nevertheless. he drank the splen-
! did and Spartan traditions of the clan
/ of his fOrefathers; he could not help
/ it. And from his early years, so young
! that he does not remember anything
/ about them, he was trained in the arts
( of arms and those of gentler tenets
/ which are the heirloom OF children of
j the Samurai.
! As he grew, even as his mother had
/ promised to the gods. he placed his
I life at the service of his country. And
! in the course of time he found him
( self a student in the Heiga kuryo-that
/ rough-hewn pioneer of the military
/ education in Nippon. fashioned after
! the far western methods.
As Nippon fell more and more vic
! tim of the hypnOtism of the western
/ civilization the government. decided to
! send a certain number of the country's
youths to a number of European and
American military academies, that they
I might learn the new and strange and
/ powerful art of war i'm the land of its
! birth. Togo HeihachirO was one of
/ the students selected. As the happy
| smile of fortune would have il he was
/ sent to England. on the training ship
/ Worcester. upon the historic Thames,
! he evidently did what he could to up
hold the majesty of the land of the
/ gods. both in scholarship and in the
/ attainment of the art of naval war
! fare His shOwings were common
/ enough. He went his quiet way, and
the chief duty of life with the young
man was TO efface himself as much
as he might from the limelight of no.
toriety-
Quietly he came home to Nippon. aft
er his schooling abroad and quietly
he went about his work Of the build
ing of the navy of the empire. Nothing
was too humble for him. and certainly
in the variety of work which he was
called upon TO perform, in the form
p = I.
day, from tranSlating technical naval
I terms to teaching his men how to scrub
the decks, it was certainly wide OF
range. Steadily he rose in spite of
| his quiet ways for a light cannot al
ways remain hid under Il busheI how
ever modest the candle. when the
world happens TO be in sore need of
I it. Then came the autumn of 1894
He was the commander of the Naniwa
and you have heard the tales with
out number of the leader of the Fly
in" Squadron of Nippon which led Ad-
miral Ito's ships into every action
through the Chino-Nippon war.
The year 1903 was dying and trying
to forget itself over the birth of
new year. Shadows were thick in the
skies of the far east: in the hearts
of the people of Nippon there was no
peace. Admiral Togo was at the head
Of the naval station at MaizUru. At
the time he was ill in bed. To his bed
side came message from Toxic. from
his old schOolmate and friend, Admiral
Baron Yamamoto. the minister Of the
navy. The telegram called him 10 To-
kio- Raising his head from his pill
low. he called for his uniform and
: ordered the preparation for a flying
trip TO Toxic.
But you are not well enough to
undertake the journey" said his Wife.
Il shall be all right-the minute my
: feet viii be upon the bridge. d any
rate. was the answer.
At Toxic the minister of the navy
{ took Admiral Togo into his private
room. and for two solid hours he spoke
! to Togo. None question that the min
I lister made the most eloquent speech
of his life to his lone audience His
I majesty'S ships are waiting for YOU at
Sasebo.' concluded the minister.
The sole auditor of the historic
! speech rose i'm silence. bowed to this
messenger of his master the emperor,
and said IN reply:
Il shall execute your orders"
Nothing more.
At SasebO, aboard his flagship, the
Mikasa. the day before the united
squadrons sailed for the battlefield
when he announced to his officers and
men the opening of the war, he spoke
a Ver-, little more
The squadrons Will sail today. l