Tokyo, Dec. 28.
It_is officially annoimnced that a son and heir to the Japanese Throne was born to the Empress at 6.39 this. morni Mother and child are reported to be doing well.
Two long-drawn siren blasts Jannounced that the fervent prayers fof the Japanese nation for an heir to the Throne had at last" been answered, thus removing the threat of a serious dynastic. crisis.
Every day and night for the past few days thousands. of Japanese have gathered in shrines and before Palace, their heads Divine in the birth of an hei to the this city. The total expenditure is allotted by the National Economic by the National Economic Commission, the Honan provincial at Ta, tee a
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