"My position at home has not yet been established. Tam reluctant' leave Japan as I regard it as my second home, so to speak, having lived here for such a long period.
"My successor will be It-Colonel /B. A. Mullaly, who has lived here for three years, from 1020, as [Language Offeer under me."
Maj-Gen. Piggott came to Japan at the age of five, when his father, HDr. Praneis 'T. Piggott, was legal ad-wiser fo the late Prince Hirobumi Tto, ferie of the men who framed the [Japanese constitution.
He stayed three years at thie time, returning home st the age of ight. }Hfe came back to Japan as a Lieuten-fant and Language Oficer, during the Russo-Japanese war. His third visit here was in 1910 as Assistant Military Atlache—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.