Tokyo, Sept. 1.
Cabinet ministers, headed by. Premier Keisuke Okada, members of the diplomatic corps, and more than 4,500 representative citizens of Tokyo, this morning attended the anniversary services of the Kwanto Earthquake, which struck Tokyo and Yokohama with disastrous results twelve years ago to-day.
Foreign representation at the rit which were held according Buddhist and Shinto ritual under the spices of the City of Tokyo, was exceptionally heavy because of the addition to-day of the names of 223 'Occidentals, who lost their lives in the holocaust, to the st of the 48000 victims' already enshrined in the Honjyo Memorial Of the foreigners 73 were Britons, Americans, 20 French, 40 Russians, two Germas, one Italian and one Belgian.
'Rear-Admiral Mitchell MacDonald, USN. then 70 years old; the US. 'Vice Consul, Mr. Paul Jenks, 64 years old; Mr. Charles Marcel, a British business' man and his wife, were among those included.
The Emperor and Empress, now spending the summer at " their Hayama Villa, and the Empress. Dowager, who is in Tokyo, spent a minute in silent prayer as the clock showed 11.58 o'clock in the morning, the time when the first fatal shock fecked Tokyo and its vieinity.—Rengo.
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