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...existence of the Empire depends on this battle. Japan expects this day the courage and energy of every officer and every man in the fleet, Togo...
...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...
Last week, two days after the 20th anniversary of his great victory, Heihachiro Togo lay in his little Tokyo house, dying of cancer of the throat. For years Admiral Togo has been a living myth to the people of Japan, appearing publicly only once a year on the anniversary of the Battle of Tsushima Straits...
...Japanese commander-in-chief, Admiral Heihachiro Togo, knew that Admiral Rozhestvensky was a brave, capable and intelligent adversary. He knew that the Russian fleet was slightly superior numerically to his own: eight battleships, twelve cruisers, nine destroyers to five battleships, three second-line battleships, 23 cruisers and a flotilla of gunboats, torpedo boats and destroyers. But Admiral Togo also knew that Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet was undermanned and under-provisioned, that all its bottoms were foul from its long sea voyage, that it could not carry enough coal to dodge all the way around Japan to Vladivostok with...
With mutiny in the air, Naval Minister Osumi had to call on the greatest living hero of the Russo-Japanese War, grizzled old Admiral Count Heihachiro Togo, to join him in an appeal for discipline. To all Naval yards and stations Minister Osumi manifestoed: "Fleet Admiral Count Togo has just sent us a message concerning the necessity for Navy men to preserve mental composure, being prudent as to their utterances and conduct and ever remaining loyal to their duties. . . . The time is an extraordinary one and we ask you to redouble your efforts in loyal service...