The authorities are showing themselves very considerate for foreign iters and a special place has been allotted them on the route. As for their own people, the police frankly advise them that they had better stay at home and hold a service for the dead Emperor in their houses The metropolitan police estimate that there will be space for about 280,000 people in addition to those who have official places reserved for them and everyone of those 280,000 will certainly have to stand in place for twelve hours, Of the exact composition of the funeral procession you will have al ready heard, even if I had space in which to describe at length the almost endless groups of high officials, ritualists, ministers, masters of cere monies, princes of the blood, foreign delegates and other personages who will take part in the ceremony.
The palace, from which this procession starts, stands at the southeastern corner of & magnificent pri-vote park in the heart of the capital, The house itself, a ramble ing low-roofed structure, scarcely deserves the name of palace. Many a wealthy Japanese has built himself in recent years a house more palatial. But strictly Japanese as it is in architecture and style, for that reason the more impressive setting for what will surely be as impressive a funeral as the world has seen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.