IMPERIAL WEDDING
ELABORATE PRECAUTIONS,
TOKIO, 22nd January. Elaborate preparations are being made and precautions taken in connection with the Royal wedding. Twenty thousand troops and five thousand police will line the streets. No traffic will be allowed on the route from an hour before the wedding procession, and all the upper stories of buildings on the route must be vacated. No person wijl be allowed to watch frtyn an elevated position. The fire brigades have been ordered for continuous duty until the Royal party departs , from Tokio. Only the highest ranks of Japanese and foreign diplomats will be guests at the wedding banquet. The police are searching houses for suspects and confiscating firearms. Press editorials express the hope tihat the Prince of Wales, a friend of the Regent, will soon follow his example and take a wife.
Prince Hiropito, the Japanese Prince Regent, was ' being married on 23rd January. Recently an attempt was made to assassinate him
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 5
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157IMPERIAL WEDDING Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 5
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