EMPEROR OF JAPAN
AITACK OF PNEUMONIA ALARM IN TOKIO. MINISTERS IND FAMILY SUMMONED. TOKIO, Dec. 10. The Emperor has developed pneumonia. Ministers, household chamberlains, the Prime Minister and the Emperor’s mother have arrived at the Palace. Tho Regent and Princess are expected tomorrow. The doctors Lave all assembled. JAPAN PRAYS EMPEROR’S HEALTH WORSE. TOT! DAILY SUPPLICATION. TOKIO, Dec. 7. , To-day’s bulletin of the Court Physician states that the Emperor’s condiI tion is becoming worse. The Empress ! is constantly at his bedside. 1 The leaders of the nation’s public i life are streaming to the palace in a ; long pilgrimage of homage and devo- : tion. * The Emperor’s mother, the Countess Yanagiwara, who is not ordinarily seen at Court, has been staying with her Imperial son. Thousands of people are praying tonight at the shrines throughout the country that the Emperor may be spared. For a month past this daily supplication has continued. His Imperial Majesty, Yoshihito, the 122nd Emperor of Japan, born in 1579, has been seriously ill for a very long time, and has taken no part in the administration. His successor is the Crown Prince Hirohito, 25 years of age, who has had a western education, and was appointed Regent five years ago. on account of his father’s illness. He married three years ago, and has one (laughter. Prince Chichibu, undergraduate at Oxford University, has been recalled to Japan owing to the serious illness of the Emperor.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19722, 13 December 1926, Page 9
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