Tokyo, Apr. 26.
a weird mixing of Western military pomp and Japanese Shintoism, the souls of 947 officers and men who lost their lives in action during the last year, were added to the list of revered war dead at the Yasukuni Shrine here to-night. In the light of burning pine logs in huge iron braziers, detachments from the Third Regiment of the Imperial Bodyguard Division, representatives of the various units in which the casualties Ogcurred, delegates from the faculty and student body of all naval and military schools in Tokyo and representatives of officers and non-commissioned officers from the First Army Division, lined up in_serried ranks before the shrine. In their middle, were in a group apart the 2,400 relatives of the deceased, who were specially invited to attend the ritual—Domel,
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