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HEIHACHIRO, COUNT, Japanese admiral; born at Kagoshima in December, 1847. He entered the navy in 1863 and participated in the civil war of 1868. From 1871 to 1878 he studied in England at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and on board British warships. In 1894 when in command of the cruiser "Naniwa" he fired on and sank the Chinese transport "Kowshing," which led to the war between China and Japan.
In 1900 he became vice-admiral. In the war with Russia he was appointed naval commander-in-chief and on Feb. 8, 1904, made a successful attack with torpedoes on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, though war had not actually been declared. On May 27, 1905, he gave battle to the Russian Baltic fleet under Admirals Rojestvensky and Nebogatoff on its way to Vladivostok off Tsu Island, in Korea Strait, and practically annihilated it. In 1912 he was made Admiral of the fleet, and Chief of the General Naval Staff.
TOKAY (to'koi), a town of Hungary, at the confluence of the Bodrog, with the Theiss; 113 miles N. E. by E. of Budapest. It derives its celebrity from its being the entrepôt for the sale of the famous sweet wine of the same name, made in the hilly tract called the Heyaltya, extending 25 or 30 miles N. W. from the town. When new, Tokay wines are of a brownish-yellow muddy color, which, when very old, changes to a greenish tint. The best qualities are extremely rich and luscious, but cloying. The finest and oldest varieties of Tokay bring large prices. Inferior Hungarian wines are frequently sold under this name, and many French and German imitations are also in the market. Pop. about 5,500.
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