A JAPANESE STATESMAN.
• , • "•< " - , . ~ • " ' COUNT ITO' VISIT TO , ENGLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. (Received January 5, 4.55 p.m.) London, January 4. Count Ito attended ,the Mansion House banquet and expressed profound satisfaction at a century's cordial relations . between Britain and Japan. He said he was confident that the focus of international competition, was steadily moving towards the Pacific. ' The Marquis Ito has for a considerable period been • regarded as one of the best allround men in his. country,; having had to do with more than' one crisis in the history of the Japanese nation. For 10 years ho was the head of the Imperial arsenal. As Admiral Ito he ' was the commander of the Japanese fleet in the Yalu River engagement of 159-1. and virtually drove the Chinese fleet from the seas. Then he was popularly known as the " thin admiral," from his physical characteristics. He was the idol of the sailors, and to-day is no less esteemed in society on account of his genial manners and versatile ability.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11855, 6 January 1902, Page 5
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167A JAPANESE STATESMAN. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11855, 6 January 1902, Page 5
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