Sept. 14.
The report of a gun at midnight announced to the multitudes that the supreme moment in the funeral ceremony had arrived. Their Ma-jostles the Emperor and Empress advanosd to worship before the bier in the Parade Ground and the whole assemblage stood with bowed heads, while thousands of bells at Buddhist temples and Christian churches tolled, and the minute guns on and land began to boom.
Throughout the whole country at this time work was suspended for three minutes.
Ths military and naval pallbearers walking beside the funeral car in the procession included General Kuroki, General Oku, Admiral Togo, Admiral Ijuin and Admiral Saito, Minister of Marine.
The fact was much commented upon that Prince Katsura rode in the same carriage as the Emperor to the Parade Ground. It was at two o'clock in the morning that the special train left for Kioto, the Naval Squadron in Tokio Bay firing n salute. The entiris route to kodama was lighted by electricity.
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