Word: nogi
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...Hudson-Fulton celebration. During her infancy he was at the Russo-Japanese front. Her mother sprang from the clan of Satsuma, stern in virtue. Nagako, aged 21, was born in the simplest of imperial residences. She attended the Peeresses' School when General Nogi was its President. Japan regards her as "the personification of beauty, virtue and love...
...probably most of you are aware, our city of Kagoshima is the place where were born great Saigo, Kido, and Okubo, who with others helped to create New Japan, and Togo, Oyama, Kuroki, Nogi, and many other heroes and statesmen who took active part in the late RussoJapanese...
...finally expelled from Port Arthur; and after some time on a Chinese junk, was eventually captured by the Japanese blockading fleet. It was from the Japanese ranks that he obtained his vivid photographs of the bloody assault on "203-Metre Hill." On his refusal, however, to disclose to General Nogi his knowledge of the Russian fortifications, the lecturer was imprisoned for some time at the Japanese naval base at Sasebo, where he was eventually paroled...
...course of the fighting he ran the Russian and Japanese lines six times, interviewing Japanese and Russian prisoners as well as soldiers, riding with Kuropatkin's staff, and visiting Nogi's headquarters. His greatest feat, that of interviewing General Stoessel, was accomplished by runnings the Japanese blockade and entering Port Arthur under fire...