MIKADO DYING?

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3527, 14 July 1920, Page 7

MIKADO DYING?

SENS:\’I‘IC)N:\I; STORY 01*‘ A SECRET ILLNESS, NE\V Y(."IRI{

The No\\'sl»;lpt\l' T‘:llt9i'pl‘iS9 Associat'”m issues :1 Ille.~f<:l'g'<> from its Tokio concspuudenr «le«:l:n*u:<__: that the Milizxdfi is dying.

The ':oi'n-spuiifimii adds: “'l.‘his is the firz.-r, news of his desperate illness tl]:.lt has I‘(‘tl(‘llCLl the world. No JapHll(‘:r't‘ Il(2V\'Sp:\pL‘l' llll>‘ even mentioned it. The law proliibits them from commenting on such matters I'elai'in_r_,v" l‘o the ro_va.l family. but I have it from the most roliulilo sourczes that he is now in his last illness, anci it is only 3 qnestion of how short :1 time it will be before this Mikado will be gathered to his 121 fatlieis who have ruled Japan before him. A “The Emperor ‘s'eoudition is said to be pitiuble. l His ailment has affected his brain, and he is ’iuc»apa'ble of attemling to the simplcsi: affairs of Sfato, even if he is able to 'rec'ognise those about him. The stricken ruler is living in the imperial ‘villa. close 1:0 the beautiful sousliore villzigo of l'l'nyamzi. The ;;roun(ls are ez‘."efllll_v gtiarclul. and a heavy veil of .<u:i-any has l)ovii"'Ti'l*:l\\'l’i about YO:%llllllt0. (‘\'l_‘ll iii-side the house itsel*E__ KC. that the facts of his rle;~lpairilig «_'*m':«!‘.i'im.l slx:ii7 not leak out. ‘Howev<>'i{. :'t'x{l!l_\' Sim-io< of unlmlanceil actions :..:i:l his '.rif<‘.>3fs are cm-ried ‘under J-t1l.~.;~ it-m::i.*.fli ?'Q-‘n 'pl£i(‘,(‘ tn‘ pla-re iln'ou;;lim=." t"ir- rw‘ 11*” V.”