No Gilded Coach: No troops Precedents and the rules of ceremonial Imperial etiquette that have prevailed m Japan through all the centuries of its history went down, one after the other, before the wheels of an automobile on July 15.
For the first time, His Imperia Majesty, the Emperor, rode through the streets of his Capital in automobile on an—announced journey. He has previously been driven in a motor car, but always in the strictest incognito, and without the knowledge of the public, For the first time a ceremonious tup through the streets of the city was made without troops lining the roadside. This morning a few gear darmes and the ordinary police wateried the route of the Imperial procession. The gleaming bayonets of the men of the Imperial Bodyguard, in long, stiff lines on each side of the streets, were absent. The flickering penonnts of the lancers, riding smartly in front of and behind the usual, red and gilt coach of state, were not present. Instead, a handsome automobile, driven by a chauffeur in the Imperial livery, rolled silently along, through rows of respectful people, between whom, and their Emperor no guarding sol-diary stood.
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