JAPAN CHEERS
ROYALTYFOR
FIRST TIME
TOKIO, June 1 (Correspondence of
the Associated Press).—For the first
time in the history of Japan the peo
ple have cheered their monarch?.
Popular celebrations were held in
Tokio to celebrate the fiftieth anni
versary of the removal of the imperial
capital from Kioto to Tokio and the
thirtieth anniversary of the establish
ment of Tokio as a municipality.
For two days the people of the me
tropolis gave themselves up to en
thusiastic rejoicings. The city was gay
with festoons, flags and magnificent
evergreen arches.
Emperor Yoshihito, with his consort
and Crown Prince Hirohito, drove
through the packed streets in open
coaches and bowed in acknowledgment
of the respectful “banzais” of the mul
titudes.
In the past the emperor of Japan
rarely has made his appearance in the
public streets, and always has been
received in silent homage. The re
cent ovation after the Western idea
is regarded as a democratic approach
of the emperor to his people. In other
words, -Japan is responding to the
democratic spirit abroad in the world.
The municipality presented to the
emperor and empress several historic
documents and pictures concerning
the capital. The pavilion used for the
principal ceremonies in Ueno park was
specially erected in pure old Japanese
style, the roof being thatched with the
bark of cryptomerias and the outer
walls being covered with green cryp
tomeria leaves. The walls inside were
beautifully decorated with gold dust
and covered with screens and curtains
having designs of flowers and birds.
A procession reconstructing the an
cient daimo corteges and lanterns and
flag processions were included in the
celebration, which was commemorated
also by the issuing of a special postage
stamp.
Every house, from richest to poor
est, bore in front an exquisite paper
lantern surmounted by a spray of
cherry blossoms.
ESTHONIAN REGIMENT
FINANCED BY AMERICAN
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REVAL, Esthonia, June 6 (by mail).
—The crack regiment of the new Es
thonian army is one organized and
financed by an American citizen, H.
C. Reisser. It is composed of cav
alry, infantry and artillery units,
numbers one thousand men, and has
been fighting for several months.
This discovery was made by the
American Red Cross mission which ar
rived a few days ago with a shipload
of supplies for the relief of the coun
try.
Mr. Reisser already had organized
a small Red Cross hospital of fifty
beds. The first articles which this hos
pital requested of the American relief
workers were an American flag and a
Red Cross flag. When both of these
were supplied they flung the two ban
ners to the breeze from flagpoles in
the hospital yard.
Tub and shower baths at the Holden
pool room barber shop. 9-tf
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
BECOME ACQUAINTED
WITH RUSSIAN WORDS
ARCHANGEL, June 5 (Correspond
ence of Associated Press).—American
soldieres withdrawn from Northern
Russia will take back to Michigan
and other Middle Western states,
from which most of the troops on this
front were drafteed, a number of Rus
sian words which have become a daily
part of the soldier’s vocabulary.
Chief of these words is "skelkea,”
of which the English equivalent is
“how much?” The Yanks have been
using this word on the Russian popu
lation ever since they landed, last
September, in transactions of barter
and sale. The soldiers have made a
verb of it, and those who have made
neat profits in selling cigarettees, old
clothing, superfluous rations, etc., to
the peasant and city civilians are
spoken of as having “skolhea’ed”
something.
Other words the soldiers have
adopted as their own include:
“Ponimiyu,” meaning “I under
stand,” and “Ne-portiifiiyu,” meaning
“I don’t understand.”
“Da,” meaning “yes.”
“Nyet," meaning “no.”
“Spasebo,” meaning “thank you.”
And last, but not least, the eternal
Russian “nichevo,” which means any
thing from “nothing,” “never mind,”
to “what do I care about that?”
POPULATION OF PARIS
SHOWS BIG INCREASE
PARIS, June 15 (by mail).—A stat
istician who has made a study of the
growth of the population of Paris esti
mates that the city within its present
limits will have six million inhabit
i
ants in another half century, and that
the population of the department of
the Seine, which he thinks will then
be a part of the capital, will have in
creased to 14,300,000.
He bases his figures on the actual
development of the city since 1800
and on the progressive density of the
population, which went from 85 to
the acre in 1861 to 146 to the acre in
1911. In 1961. he anticipates, Paris
will cover 432,500 acres, practically
the entire territory of the department
of the Seine and some of the com
munes of the department of Seine et
Oise.
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Now that the war is over, the fin
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on her way to Alaska via the Panama canal, and others are being repaired
and refitted for work on the Pacific coast.
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