TOGO AND HIS DEAD.
ADDRESS TO THE SPIRITS OF
THE DEPARTED.
At a funeral service held in memory of a number of officers and men who were killed before Port Arthur, while serving with the Japanese fleet, Admiral Togo ad" dressed the spirits of the departed sailors.
He said: "Aa I stand before your spirits I c< d hardly express my feelings. Your personality is fresh in my memory. Your corporeal existence has ceased, but your pacing from the world has been in the gallant discharge of your duty, by virtue of which the enemy's fleet on this side of the world haa been completely disabled.
"Our combined fleet retains the undisputed coir.mand of the seas. I trust that this will bring peace and rest to your spirits.
"It i≤ my agreeable duty to avail myself of the occasion of my presence in this city, whither t have been called by the Emperor, to report our successes to the spirits of those who sacrificed their earthly existence for the attainment of so great a resu't.
'"Thid report is rendered most humbly by mc in person. "Heiharcliiro Togo, Admiral of the Combined Fleets."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 40, 16 February 1905, Page 5
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192TOGO AND HIS DEAD. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 40, 16 February 1905, Page 5
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