Tokio, Jan. 5.
The bulletin issued this evening by his physicians pronounces the condition of Marquis Okuma "s very serious.
Jan. 6.
Marquis Okuma is in a comatose state and his condition is pronounced hopeless. The newspapers are already publishing sketches of his career.
Later.
A local news agency reports that Marquis Okuma is dead.
Later.
An inquiry by Reuter's representative at the residence of i Okuma this afternoon eli fact that he is not dead but is not expected to live another two days.—Reuter.
Tokio, Jan. 8.
The condition of Marquis Okuma is quiet, but since the night of January 7 his heart has been weak and his chief physician is taking every precaution. On January 8 the students of the Waseda University offered prayer for the recovery of the Marquis.—Eastern News Agency.
Tokio, Jan. 10.
Marquis Okuma died at seven o'clock this morning.
Later.
The whole country, which has Jong been watching sympathetically by the death-bed of "the Sage of Waseda," is to-day mourning the loss of one who everywhere was regarded as Japan's greatest son, the late Marquis Okuma.
Ah political differences have been sunk and all criticisms of him as a statesman have been laid aside before the memory of his noble example as a pure and right-living man; as a scholar with world-wide interests, of profound learning and an unrivalled ability to debate, who gave his best ungrudgingly to the promotion of what might contribute toward the peaceful development and welfare of his fellow-men.
One of the most remarkable tributes to the love and esteem in which he was held is evidenced by the fact that hundreds of students of Waseda University, of which he was the founder, united in prayer for his recovery. Such a tribute had never been paid before to any of Japan's great men except to the late Emperor Meiji. The University has closed for one week in memory of its dead founder.—Reuter.
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