There is a continuous procession of his ce-religionists around. the court in which he died, expressing their grief by erying, praying and prostrating themselves in religious exercises of reverence. The road between Urga and the palace is crowded with people, mostly on foot, toing to pay their respects to the dead, but none are permitted near the corpse. Foreigners are not permitted to go near the palace where the body lies and the taking of Photographs is strictly forbidden.
The Government has decreed two weeks general mourning and all the Government Offices and Department will be closed for days; they have also assigned the sum of 8,000.00 towards the funer arrangements which will take place after the body has been embalmed, this will take about two months The Army and all Government Departments wilh take part in the funeral procession. brought the anti-American feeling loser home to the foreign community than ever before, occurred at the Imperial Hotel, the nerve jeentre of foreign and Japanese social contact, when a band of 30) [Japanese political ruffians to-night invaded the usual Saturday evening dance and broke up the affair by menacing speeches and gestures, punctuated by dances with drawn swords.
The speeches, which were rein forced by handbills, urged a boycott of all American goods, the deportaand future exclusion of Amer teans from Japan, and Japan to rise against foreigners, Japanese friendly towards foreigners tried to interpret the affair not as directed against foreigners but as upbraiding Japanese who would associate with Americans at fa time "when the motherland is insulted and endangered.
The demonstration was so menace ing that the foreign women, of whom there were about 50 present, were compelled to leave the dance room. The men stayed, and for a time a fight was threatened.
The police did not interfere.
Among the witnesses of the demonstration were the American Charge d'Affaires, Mr. Caffrey, and members of the Embassy staff.
The band were finally persuaded to withdraw from the scene by the more sober Japanese who were at the hotel.
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