Tokyo, Oct. 2 Tokyo went wild with joy today when the oMicially-sanctioned week-Jong celebration of the fall of Hankow began, From daybreak innumerable processions of marchers, waving flags and led by bands, converged on the Plaza in front of the Imperial Palace.
Apart from regimented battalions, which on elaborate machinery can pour out whenever occasion mands, thousands upon thousands participated unbidden as a spontaneus expression of joy An air of undeniable optimism prevailed, for despite official pronouncements describing the fall of Hankow as marking only a new Phase in the Sino-Japanese Hostli-Hes the general public appear confident that large-scale warfare has already ended and peace, though it, may be delayed, is in sight.
The crowds demonstrating at the Plaza in front of the Palace burst into frenzied cheers this morning. when the Empress appeared at Nijubashi, or the double bridge linking: the Plaza with the Palace.
But enthusiasm reached a point of delirium when the Emperor, mounted on favourite charger "White Snow," on which he had been taking hhis daily exercise, appeared on the bridge at 3.05.
Only a few times in the whole history of Japan has a monarch appeared in public for the express pur-[pose of acknowledging the greetings of his subjects, and today marked the Airst such ' appearance of the present ruler~Reuter.
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