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Admiral Togo steamed back to Sasebo a world hero. His Emperor made him a Count. In 1911 when he was returning from the coronation of George V via Washington Admiral Togo was almost knocked out of his uniform by the enthusiastic back-slapping Teddy Roosevelt...
...When the Emperor learned that the 86-year-old hero could not live more than a day or two, he had him raised from a Count to a Marquis, sent him from the imperial cellars twelve bottles of ancient wine. Admiral Togo could not swallow, could scarcely speak, but he had not forgotten how to receive such honors. He had his ceremonial Japanese robes (the haori-hakama) spread over the end of his bed. For six years his wife, the Countess Tet-suko Togo, had been bedridden with neuralgia. But at the clink of the Emperor's bottles...
...just want to rest until the end," croaked Admiral Togo, "I am thinking of my Emperor-and roses...
Next day he died. In formal proclamation the Emperor decreed that he should have a State Funeral, the 17th since the Meiji Restoration 66 years...
...sympathized with the lonely plight of owl-eyed Emperor Henry was swart little President General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez of El Salvador, a nation about as large as Maryland. President Martinez, a vegetarian, a teetotaller and an authority on agricultural reform, had been in office more than two years before the U. S. recognized him, knew only too well the penalties of nonrecognition. On Jan. 26 of this year, President Roosevelt was ready to admit the existence of President Martinez. Thirty-six days later President Martinez was ready to admit privily the existence of Emperor Kang Teh. But he apparently...