and Resolve From Our Own Correspondent, Tokio, Aug. 25.
Although Premier Admiral Baron Tomsabura Kato died on Friday afternoon, August 24, official announcement of his demise was not made till the afternoon of the following day. The deceased statesman's wife and only daughter—the latter married to Admiral Funakoshi—were at the Premier's bedside when the end came. The sailor-statesman of Japan passed away without saying anything, and PThe Y postponement of—official fectly peacefully. announcement of the -death of Admiral Kato was in order to permit the granting of posthumous honours by the Throne. The late Premier was advanced to the rank of Viscount, was made am Admiral of the Fleet and was granted the Grand Order of the Chrysanthemum, one of the highest decorations in Japan and an award granted to very few. The posthumous honours conferred are said to ibe unprecedented. Premier Kato and the late Mr. Kei Hara, who was stabbed to death by a political assassin, have been the only two Prime Ministers of Japan to die in the saddle. Death has claimed Premier Kato just as his major work, for which he was elevated to the Premiership—namely the carrying out of the stipulations of the Washington naval treaty—had been completed. While he was on his sick bed he directed Admiral Takarabe, Minister of the Navy, on receipt of the news that France had ratified the treaties, to proceed with the scrapping of the ships doomed by the conference. Among the ships that he ordered to be sent to the scrap-heap was the Mikasa, his flag-ship during the Russo-Japanese war when, with Togo, he managed to annihilate the Russian Baltic Sea fleet.
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