Promoted full admiral while the war was still in progress, he was, on its conclusion. the recipient of the thighest awards and honours, both {from his own grateful country and from others, his foreign decorations including the highly prized British JOrder of Merit, which Prince Arthur Jof Connaught presented on the occasion of the Garter Mission to Japan fin 1008, Chief of the Naval General Staff {for a short time after the war with Russia, Admiral Count Togo, of he was this time, was then appointed a member of the Supreme War Coun-ell, and, in April, 1918, was promoted His last visit to England was in 1911 when, as a member of Prince Higashi Fushimi's suite. he attended the Coronation of King George Jand among the most treasured posses sions in his. small, unpretentious, simply furnished wooden dwelling in [Tokyo is the invitation card to that Jeeremony. Suitably framed, it hangs ina place of honour on a' wall of fois study. Close by is a photograph of his famous flagship Mikasa, while pictures of- other warships in' which he served are also there.
But amongst the many trophies and mementoes cluttering the small room, Rone is more treasured than a piece Neptune moving in the conséllation Leg sets about midnight; en 2nd O32 atm; on 46th at 137
Revotvtiox Axo Rezanet oF Mencuny Mercury deseribes_an orbit within that of the earth in 08 days, which fits sidereats evolution, so that iynodie revoligon or period, vor the from one superior or Interior con= Sunetion "with the sun fo the next, [about 116 days and Mercury seen 1 the earth, ondllates from one side of the sun to Be other and back again in° this' petrel, the extreme positions being called longations. "The "average period rom east to west elongation Fe'Gays: frum west to. east, 2 day, There are, therefore. three (as this yest) or four easton elongation' or evening Apparitions ly year. anda corresponds {ing number pt western. Because of the large eliptigty of the orbit the angular Sistance ofthe planet from the cuon these oeeaions "is very" variable, and for this afd other reasons the elreum= Htances yi apparitions diter.. The Feagon of the difference of the sideres and aynglle revolution of Mercury (and the othe) Planets) that when Mercury ioo the earth has "gone comer sound again to the point of fis forward and it requires 28 days" for the pimiet 10 overtake Us lof off wood. It is nothing much to ook at but closer inspection reveals jan inscription explaining that once Stormed part of the hull of Nelson's 'Vétory, and that it had been present: el to the Nelson of Japan by some his British admirers—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.