NEW EMPEROR.
TOKIO PRECAUTIONS.
POLICE FORCES MOBILISED.
(united pbesb association—b? electric telegraph—copyright.) TOKIO, November 4. Thirty thousand police ,will be mobilised for the enthronement service or Prinoe Hirohito at Tokio and Kyoto, thrice the number engaged at the last enthronement in 1915. On Tuesday, all traffic will be stopped in the centre of the city, while a cordon of thousands of police will be thrown round the palace, preventing the public from approaching after d The regulations are tinprecendented in strictness and testify to the nervousness of the police. One thousand suspected persons have been lodged in gaol for the remainder of the month.—AuS; tralian Press Association. • ["His Imperial Majesty Hirohito, who will be crowned as 124 th Emperor of Japan in Kyoto this week, was born on April 29th. 1901, and is the first living son of the late Emperor Yoshihito. and was proclaimed[Crown Prince on September 9th, 1902. lie was appointed Regent in 1921 on account of the illness of his father and ascended the Throne on December 2oth, 1926. He married the Princess Nagako. daugher of Prince Kuni, in 1921, there being one child living, the Imperial Princess Shigeko. In 1921 the Emperor-elect visited Europe.] .
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19460, 6 November 1928, Page 11
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