Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-12-13 | Page 2 | Admiral Yamamoto's Name First to Star in Japanese Fighting

I I Admiral IS Name First To Star in Japanese Fighting By GLENN GABB Associated Press Cable Staff Japan Japanese se leadership on the whole is remarkable for its anonymity anonymity ano ano- there is no no counterpart of Hitler or Mussolini How many Americans can name the Japanese Goering Keitel or Raeder i From Tokyo's accounts of the the week-old week war with the United States just one name has emerged Emperor Hirohito radio radioed congratulations an an aw awesome some honor for a Japanese Japanese to to the commander of the forces which sent the Prince of ot Wales and Repulse to the bot bot- tom torn Americans and Britons might well note this man thus far their outstanding and most successful adversary Admiral l Isoroku Isoroku Isoroku Iso- Iso roku commander of the combined fleet Japans Japan's main overseas striking sinking weapon It may also have been his airmen airmen airmen air air- men flying from carriers earners or island bases who blasted Pearl harbor Sunday and touched oft off the war warIn warin warin In the Pacific It is not clear whether the commander of the battle fleet also would command such fliers filers nevertheless Yama Yama- moto belongs to the ruling clique that loosed the attack Favors Sea Air up Tie-up He is Japans Japan's foremost advocate of combined air and sea power He once was known as a tough fighter tighter in in international conferences conferences conferences confer confer- for Japanese naval equality with the United States and Britain American and British admirals and diplomats have reason to re remember remember remember re- re member him He is the man who as spokesman for the Tokyo naval command torpedoed the London naval conference of 1934 1034 and with it the whole painfully built structure structure structure ture of naval limitation ending the i building truce that gave the Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- ocean twp two decades of peace Saw Duty in 1904 is 57 7 ti rn In 1884 in on the bleak northwestern northwestern northwestern north north- western coast of the main mam Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese island where the snows lie he six feet deep most of the winter and hard-bitten hard seafaring men are produced He was born Takano but according to Japanese custom was adopted into a family He was graduated from the naval academy in 1904 just justin in time to fight in the Russian- Russian Japanese war as an ensign He knows his American and British adversaries for he was naval in Washington in 1925 and spent the winter of 1934 35 in London b battling as as' as Japans Japan's delegate at the conference which sought to extend the naval truce begun at Washington in 1922 held out for the Japanese navys navy's program program the Tokyo cabinet had little to say about it for abolition of the Washington ratios three five three five with Japan on the short end end end-a a common maximum tonnage for the American British and Japanese navies and abolition or restriction of offensive weapons defined these as i First aircraft carriers second I battleships third heavy cruisers One of history's ironical turns is that almost certainly it was planes from carriers that finished the Prince of Wales and Repulse and perhaps also smashed at Hawaii