The Archive · 1935

The Siamese Villa in Surrey

DEATH OF WIDOW OF ADMIRAL TOGO

Tokyo, Dec. 2.

Marchfoness Tetsu Togo, widow of japan's Nelson," Fleet-Admiral Marquis Heihachiro Togo, died here this afternoon.

The Marchioness, who was 74 years old, had long been an invalid sufler-'Ing from neuralgia. Her death to-day, coming almost six months to the after that of her renowned husband, was ascribed by doctors to pneumona, but persons close to the Marchioness said it was hear!-break.

She presented a pitiful gute, as the bid a Inst farewell to the body of her illustrious husband as it was being borne out of the simple, one-storeyed Japanese-style Barely abie to lift her head from the pillows of the stretcher on which was being carried, she closed her filled eyes in prayer as the coffin was being carried away. She immediately asked her nurse to be taken back to her room to listen to description of the rites that were broadcast over the radio—Rengo

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