NAVAL OFFICER'S SUICIDE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19195, 29 December 1927, Page 7

NAVAL OFFICER'S SUICIDE.

JAPANESE NATION STIRRED A Ct WIDELY COMMENDED. CiJl*- mS9 A,BOcUTIOK —COP-SfEIOHT.) AXD K.Z. CABLK ASSOCIATION.) TOKIO, December 27. v 0 t since General Nogi committed iifa-ki« in 1902 nas an acfc ccrc - Iftial suicide umong the higher classes, deeply stirred the nation as that *? Commander Miisuki. of the cruiser itftsu which in August Inst struck id jank a destroyer with the loss oi rL 6 a ct was committed on the ovo ,f the delivery of the verdict of the donimaiidcr Mi/.uki deliberately cut iis thfont with a razor, whilst standing Lfore a mirror, ile was dressed in ij« ceremonial costume and his wife I ,j children were within earshot. His 'jfj brought in the children, who "-id homago to their father as a hero, iJd then informed a lawyer. Jho newspapers editorially extol the ia icido as ano We act of exemplary , e |(-imniolntioii, which will undoubtedly raije the stnndard of the national sense «f responsibility, irrespective of the rerfict, which, under tho circulnitanoes, will nover be published. It is authoritatively asserted tnat Cotnm&nder Mizuki was found not Adinirnl Oknda, Minister of the Nary, «nd other Admirals and his ftllbw-officors laud Commander Mizuki ii loyal to tho cause of his Imperial jhlter and tho State.