The Japanese Faith.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8051, 31 March 1905, Page 5

The Japanese Faith.

A correspondent before Port Arthur, of a Tokio paper, had an ioterview with General: Nogi. Asked as to his wife's anguish at the loss of her two sons and only children - there is' no daughter— Baron Nogi replied that before leaving Tokio he had taken pains to make her appreciate the piobaMlity of such a disaster, and he had no doubt that she was resigned. His own family was now extinct. Anticipating the possible loss of his two sons, he had made arrangements that the only child of his brother should succeed to the title, but this lad had also been lulled. Nevertheless, he derived in his bereavement the great consolation of knowing that if many under his command found death before the fortress, their spirits and, their families would recognise that the general who led them had also suffered. His groom, who had been in his service for many years, and his favourite horse also had- been killed, so, as he laughingly observed, it might almost be said that five members of the Nogi household had been sacrificed. It is said that the news of his son's death, carried to him during the attack on the High Hill, did not produce any visible effect on the general. He continued to direct the operations actively, and when success had been achieved, his congratulations to his officers were as hearty and as gladsome as though no calamity whatever had befallen him.