Profound Alarm

With all the physical prestige of a man six and a half feet tall, with all the au- thority of a peer who has just relinquished the great office of Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin told the leaders of the British Conservative Party in London last week that "the prestige of the white man in India has been lost and probably cannot be recovered."

For this profoundly alarming state of affairs His Lordship cited "three causes": first the winning by an Eastern people of the Russo-Japanese war; second the sending of black troops against white in the World War; and third the influence on the Indian mind of motion pictures, "particularly with reference to the appearance and activities of white women upon the screen": i. e. an Indian instinctively scorns a man who does not show mastery of his wife, something seldom shown in movies.

Still green and ever sprouting at some new ceremony in his honor is the gratitude of Japanese to the now venerable hero of their successful, epochal war with Russia. There is a Japanese Who's Who 1931 and in it ASIA'S HERO is listed thus:

Togo, Heihachiro, Count (created '07), Admiral of Fleet, Member of Board of Marshals & Fleet Admirals, Order of Merit (Br.), 1st Class Golden Kite and Grand Order of Chrysanthemum; born 1847, a son of petty retainer of the Lord of Kagoshima. He commenced sailor's career at 16 and at 21 first came under fire, in fighting with the late Enomoto's Kwaiten; studied in England, '71-73; in the Japan-China War commanded the cruiser Naniwa and sank the Chinese transport Kowsing, a British steamer flying the British flag (see p. 39); Rear-Admiral after the War; Vice-Admiral in '90; Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet in the '04-05 War and hero of the Japan Sea battle fought on 27th May, '05; Full Admiral, '04; Chief of Naval Staff. '05; Supreme War Councillor, '09; Admiral of Fleet in 'i 2. Attended King George's Cor- onation on the suite of Prince Higashi-Fushimi; was at a time Lord Tutor to the Crown Prince (Emperor Taisho). Address: Koj. Kamirokuban-cho, Tokyo.

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