GENERAL NOGI.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1434, 19 April 1905, Page 2

GENERAL NOGI.

THE HERO’S PATHETIC BTORY.

The Tokio correspondent of the Times in tho coarse of an article on the fall of Port Arthur says : —“ In the eyes of his own countrymen Nogi is porhaps the most picturesque and tho saddest figure. He haß lost both his sons—his.only sons. Ho has lost his nephew, who would have succeeded to tho titlo. When the news oi his second son’s death reached him, ho did not evince the slightest emotion during tho battle. But it was seca by hi 3 staff that for all his cheery ways and confident mien daring the day, -sometimes when night came, and he believed himself alone and unobserved, he would sit with his head bowed on his hands, tho tears welling through his fingers.” “ It is said that the Emperor will recall him and appoint him guardian of the Prince Imperial’s three little sons. That is just such a beautiful thought as the Japanese nation has learned to expect from its Sovereign, a thought cognate with hiß Majesty’s message directing that Stocssel and his officers should be allowed to return to Russia in honorable recognition of their brave defence.”