The railway and tramear traffic was stopped for three usitutes midnight and the business at the Post Offices for one minute.
The train carrying the bier leaves Aoyama at two o'clock to-morrow morning and arrives at Momoyama at 5.10 in the afternoon, Men have been selected from the historical lage of Base, whose inhabitants have done duty in this respect for centuries, to carry the hearse to the mausoleum on a car, the top of which resembles an onion flower.
The officers who walked by the side of the hearse to-night included Admiral Togo, General Kuroki, the Minister for the Navy, Rear-Admiral Kawashima lately commander of the South China Squadron. The foreign envoys at the funeral numbered twenty.
Military salutes were fired at two places in Tokio and the naval salute on the waterfront consisted of 1,300 rounds, the booming of the guns lasting for a period of eleven hours.
The persons who were lining the route had to stand for six hours. One photographer was allowed to take pictures of the procession on behalf of all the newspapers, beside the official photographer.
Public worship in the funeral palace at Aoyama will be permitted from September 15 until October 15, and at the mausoleum st Momoyama from September 18 to October 15.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.