London, Apr. 13.
Te arrival of Prince and Princess Chichiou. representing Japan at the Coronation has been quite the event of the week. Several thousand spectators were walling at Waterloo Yesterday when they.came in special cars attached to the Southampton Express. They have made them-
'Street, instead of the wide space into which' it normally opens, one looks down a narrow lane between high' wooden' walls.
Even In St. James's Park, least disturbed of all, flood Ughts are being arranged about the lawns and flower beds and, to fudge selves very accessible to the jour- by the snt_annoyance of the rialists, the Prince reminding them pigeons, over all the choloest patches that his wite had been born in of. worms.
England, and he himself had been at Oxford; while the Princess is report-as saying to the "News-Chronicle,"
do not occupy myself with matters outside my own home, but Tam very fond of sports, specially tennis, which T play regular Until the Coronation the Prince and Princess will stay at Have. But they have to yet their Coronation robes fitted, which have been made fon dummies sent from Japan, 'Although Prince' Chichibu obviously the proper person to represent the Emperor, it is impossible not to feel certain political signif. conces 'In the "air, 'The repeated olive branches that have blossomed towards England from the Japanese ress in' the past year; the sending of the "Divine Wind" on her wonder= tached to the west! end of Westminster Abbey, in which ful Might; the notable expression of desire in' the Diet by Mr. Sato, the Japanese Foreign Minister, for friend-hip with Great Britain—these symptoms have not gone unremarked here, nor by any means unrequited, The satisfactory settlement too of the Keelung incident which at one time appeared insoluble has made a ood Impression.
'By some it is believed that Japan particularly anxious that Great Britain should not be drawn into the 'Franco-Bolshevist pact, in which con nection the calm reception given in Japan' to Great Britain's naval rear-moment scheme is particularly noted, For the general upshot, however, since the overtures to" ourselves coincide with every appearance of a new and better attitude towards China, there is a strong feeling among those interested In the Far Eant that we should not be backward warmly.
responding to them frankly and
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