'A special hall is being prepared in the palace at Tokyo,—whither the Emperor's body will be brought to lie in State. The date and place of the funeral will be decided shortly. It will probably take place in February or March near Hachioji, to the north of Tokyo, where it is) understood a special site for the burial place on a hill top has already been selected, although up to the present Imperial burials have taken place in the Kyoto district, The business of the Imperial Court will be suspended five days, ich public dancing and forbidden, Business houses will be closed one da Court mourning has been ordered for a year and genera mourning for 50 days.
It is understood that the first formal audience with the new Emperor will take place to-morrow, the leading Government and Court officials attending The Diet opening has been postponed but its first act will probably be to express condolence and vote the funeral expenses, The session, which was expected to be particularly uproarious, beginning with impeachment of the Government on several trumped-up charges, will probably pass quietly, the Opposition withholding their attack out of deference to the nation's great loos and grief, Owing to the suspension of com. mercial business it is feared that the Emperor's death will strike a heavy financial blow as the end of The Emperor's death ends the Taicho ("Great Enlightenment") era and opens a new era which officially announced as the Showa ("Enlightened Peace"), The body of tke late Emperor will be brought to Tokyo on Monday, the new Emperor returning to the capital the same afternoon.
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