ANCESTOR INFORMED.
THE JAPANESE DISASTER.
AN . IMMEMORIAL CUSTOM. Sun.-' 'V , / """tOKIO, Sept. 30. In compliance -with immemorial custom, the Imperial ancestors of the reigning honso arc now being ceremoniously informed of the details of the earthquake and fire. The Emperor's messenger visited the tombs of . the Emperors to Tead the announcement of the disaster. The Prince Regent conducted tho announcement ceremony before , the sacred mirror in -, the Imperial 'Palace at Tokio. A messenger -was ; also , sent to the grand shrines of the Shinto faith to invoke peace and safety for Japan. The Emperor and Empress are taking up their wii.ter residence in Suma Palace, near Kobe. The palace -at Tokio is uninhabitable. /:;V.vv' : '",''/'.;.' , ''.:/' The Emperor and Empress are setting an example in economy, and have cut the palace menus down to one dish ,in addition to rice. _ . '...■'.'.'.; f| .V '.-. * ' The recent earthquake caused an alteration ;in the coast at ' the • bottom of'. the Boso peninsula. Some fishing ports are no longer usable. v :; .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18519, 2 October 1923, Page 7
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