THE EMPEROR DEAD.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 29 December 1926, Page 6

THE EMPEROR DEAD.

JAPAN LOSES A GREAT MONARCH. (Per Press Association —Copyright. TOKIO, December 27. The ceremony of encoffining occurred in the presence of the Emperor and Empress, the Dowager Empress, and Imperial officials, after which the Dowager removed to the reconstructed Palace at the command of the Emperor, ■who also requested the Dowager to leave the painful scene of the drawn out struggle ending Christmas morning. During the encoffining and removal the entire village was absolutely silenced. Four warships, including the battleship Yamashiro, drew in as close as possible, but there was not a sound, not a bugle note, or shot. The Emperor spent a portion of last night with the Dowager beside his father’s bed, in the regal room overlooking Sagami Bay, where much of Yoshihito s boyhood was spent. In the morning sever'd thousand soldiers, police and members of the Young Men’s Association lined the three mile coast road, along which, after nightfall a horse-drawn hearse, followed by a procession of officials, soldiers, guards and civilians will bear the ex-ruler, slowly through a. succession of fishing villages to Dzushi, where it will be entrained for Tokio. This roadway was also laid deep with silent, wad. villagers. The countryside, gathered for the farewell was noiseless as the procession WASHINGTON, December 27. Prince Ch’chibu, brother of the •Japanese Emperor, will arrive in New York on December 28 by the Majestic, en route to Tokio. He will be met by the United States’ officials and escorted in a private rar to Washington. There will be no official welcome because the Prince is in mourning for his father.