Tokyo. Sept. 7.
The heads of Christian churches in Japan will be granted by the Japanese Government the rank of Imperial appointees hitherto conferred only on chief abbots of the Shinto and Buddhist sects. under the inw of 1884. Notifications of thi-decision were issued by the Ministry of Education yesterday.
As ihe Roman Catholic Church jo at present the only Christian body officially recognized in Japan, how ever. the effect of the new orde will be limited to the head of the church, who is archbishop Tatsuo Doi—Reuter.
Miss Katherine Mayo. the American author of "Mother India." who died on October 9, last, left £645 in England, After various bequests she
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