FUNERAL OF THE MIKADO.
NOG US TRADITIONAL ACT
RELEASING DOVES AND SOUNDING BELLS.
Tokio, September 16. Xogi’s funeral will be held on Wednesday.
The underlying note of press comments condemns the suicide, while admiring Nogi’s adherence to tradition.
Nogi left three sealed documents. He followed the ancient custom, first cutting the skin of his stomach before slashing his throat. Ho visited and farowelled his friends on ’1 hursday, including Prince Yamagata, who, suspecting Ins design, said, “I hope you are not going to die.” Nogi did not answer. His friends declare that he was recently depressed by the memories of the Japanese losses at Port Arthur.
Cementing the Mikado’s grave occupied 7 hours. When completed, 89 cloves were released and the bells of the Buddhist temples sounded a hundred ami eight times for the Emperor, the conqueror of a hundred and eight human passions.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 21, 17 September 1912, Page 5
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