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...Western Hemisphere. To Japanese it stands for the same thing that Trafalgar means to the English, to Russians, what Waterloo means to the French. Greatest naval battle since Trafalgar, and one of the four greatest of all time,* Tsushima (1905) was the knockout blow by which Admiral Togo won the Russo-Japanese War, set all Japan in a roar of Banzai! History has written down Togo as hero of the fight, but last week a footnote to history gave the other side of the story...
...took the Russians eight months to steam the 18.000 miles to their rendezvous with Togo and Death. Long before they got there they knew they were heading for destruction. Less than halfway came the news that their squadron at Port Arthur had been wiped out, the remnants of the Pacific Fleet bottled up at Vladivostok. With every sea-mile it became more apparent that their own hastily-assembled armada was in no shape for a cruise, let alone a fight. Many of their ships were obsolete, the crews ignorant, ill-fed, mutinous. The commander, Admiral Rozhestvensky, an egotistical apoplectic, kept...
...goal, Vladivostok, that the blow fell. By that time they were in such a fatalistic frame of mind that the battle was almost a relief. Rozhestvensky's plan was rigidly simple-to force his column, battleships in the lead, through the Straits of Tsushima, head for Vladivostok. Since Togo's average speed was six knots faster, he had no trouble heading off the Russian column, kept pounding each leading ship in turn till it fell out of line...
POWER - Edwin A. Falk - Longmans, Green ($4). When Wallace Irwin wrote his popular Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy in 1907 he called his hero Hashimura Togo-a name obliquely familiar to most U. S. newspaper readers. But when Count Togo Heihachiro, onetime Admiral of the Imperial Fleet, died in 1934, only Japanese schoolboys still remembered the details of his famed victories. Last week Biographer Falk, himself a onetime sea dog, paid Admiral Togo's career the meticulous sympathy of one naval officer for another. Author Falk never attempted to penetrate through the uniform, but his comprehensive account of modern...
...Sweden, the Russians annoyed England by firing on British trawlers in the North Sea, thinking they were the enemy. By the time the Baltic Fleet had limped through the Straits of Malacca they were in sorry shape. Togo had had plenty of time to get ready; his ships were overhauled, his men like fighting cocks. As he lay in wait, he knew the coming battle of Tsushima (he had even picked the place) would be the decisive contest of the war. It was the greatest naval fight since Trafalgar, greatest until Jutland. Turning the Russian fleet from their one chance...