DRAMATIC SUICIDE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 238, 28 December 1927, Page 1

DRAMATIC SUICIDE

Japan Deeply Stirred

■T HE acfc was committed on the eve of the delivery of the verdict of the court-martial. Commander Mizuki deliberately cut his throat with a razor, while standing before a mirror, dressed in ceremonial costume, with his wife and children within earshot. His wife brought in the children, who paid homage to the father as a aero, and then informed a lawyer. The newspapers editorially extol the suicide as a noble act of exemplary self-immolation which will undoubtedly raise the standard of the national sense of responsibility, irrespective of the verdict, which, under j

TO WRITE OF NEW ZEALAND?— Mr. R. V. Beveridge, a distinguished journalist, now on a world tour, is visiting Auckland. Mr. Beveridge has recently been in Samoa.

HARA-KIRI BY COMMANDER Eve of Court-Martial’s Verdict By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received 9.54 a.m. TOKYO, Tuesday. MOT since General Nogi committed hara-kiri, in 1912 has the IT act of ceremonial suicide among the higher classes so deeply stirred the nation as that of Commander Mizuki, of tne cruiser Jintsu, which in August last struck and sank a destroyer with a loss of 100 lives.

the circumstances, will never be published. It is authoritatively asserted that he was not guilty. Baron Okada, Minister of the Navy, and other Admirals and fellow offleers, laud Commander Mizuki as loyal to the cause of his Imperial master and the State.—A. and N.Z. Count Mareslike Nogi, a distinguished Japanese soldier, was born in 1849. In 1912, with his wife, he committed harakiri on the death of the Mikado, September 13, having lost two sons before Port Arthur. He had led the Japanese armies to victory in the war with Russia.