LATE ADMIRAL TOGO
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
TOKIO, May 30.
The Premier had an audience -with, the Emperor concerning arrangements for a State funeral for Admiral Togo, whose death was reported throughout the world cix hours prematurely.
The State funeral trill be held on June 5 at Habiya Park, Tokio. It is proposed to cremate the body and divide the ashes between Tokio and Kagoshima, Admiral Togo's birthplace. The navy is planning to erect a Togo shrine at the Yokosuka, naval station. The whole country is mourning Admiral Togo's death.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 127, 31 May 1934, Page 11
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