LATE DOWAGER EMPRESS OF JAPAN
rjfIPRESSIVE FUNERAL RITES,
By Press Assac-iatio-n-popyrSßW, Toklo, April 14. People in Japan, wore kept in ignorance- 6( tho d.ei(tk of the Dowager Eiiipress until tTio corpse had crossed the threshold of the Pafnee, because a doath in tho Imperial Family is only admitted within the capital.
Tho coi'pse retaued .with tlie sanre state as it left tho city ia -January, and was received at the station, by the Brhicea and Ministers. The funeral equipage then drove at a toot to the.l'alace. The State- cqiteli was used with drawn blinds, under tho escort β-f a trooft -of Lancers, and driven between the Rup-s ofc tho troops, through the streets, 'which con*, taitied great masses of the peepfe. It was not until tlse <sotpse was welcomed at the iPttlace by tho Empress ah.d .escorted to tho apaAsnents that the truth was officially unveiled to tlio wctfld.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2123, 15 April 1914, Page 7
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149LATE DOWAGER EMPRESS OF JAPAN Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2123, 15 April 1914, Page 7
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