QUEER JAPANESE CUSTOM.
DEATH OF EMPRESS-DOWAGER. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Pheba Ai^ooiation.l Tokio, April 14. The people were kept in ignorance of the death of the Dowager. Empress until the corpse crossed the threshold of the palace, because a death in the Imperial family is only admitted within the capital. The corpse was returned with the same state as the Dowager-Empress left the city in January. It was received at the station by Princes and Ministers, and granted a farewell audience The corpse was driven at a trot to the palace in a state coach, with drawn blinds, under an escort of Lancers, between lines of troops. The sti'eets contained the masses of the people, but not until the corpse had been welcomed at the palace by the Empress, and escorted to apartments, was the truth officially unveiled to the world.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 95, 15 April 1914, Page 5
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141QUEER JAPANESE CUSTOM. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 95, 15 April 1914, Page 5
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