GENERAL NOGI AND HIS SONS.

Evening Star, Issue 12396, 9 January 1905, Page 6

GENERAL NOGI AND HIS SONS.

. General Nogi, the victor at Port Arthur is, according to a Japanese -writer, a great believer in simplicity. He enjoys, the reputation of being a model soldier, according to the most rigorous and ancient standard. He is described as brave, sometimes savage when occasion demands, simple to the point of ruggedness, and extremely strict in matters of discipline. He had two sons, but lost them both in the war. In March last the eldest son, who had just been ordered to the front, came to his father's study and j : t_ e the hoDOr » father, to bid you good-bye. I am about to leave the city for Manchuria. Now that lam starting out on this expedition I have not the slightest idea of coming, back to yon alive. I uhall always pray for the heahh of our august ?otr e T V If I lose my life on the battlefield, I beg you, august father, to'honor me with a word or two of commendatioa. Of course, you must also be on your way to the battlefield.* Would you permit me to suggest that, although our battlefields may be far and different, we two should run a race distinction of arms in the our country." Just then the younger son entered and asked to be allowed to enter upon this race The general langhed and consented. When the report of the death of his eldest son at Nausnan reached General Nogi he said: "I am glad he djed so splendidly. It was the greatest honor Be could have. As for the funeral tifes over his memory, they might as well be postponed for a while. A little later on they .may be performed, in conjunct iian, memory iny-.se-