The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-05-31
'JAPAN'S RULER Ill
SLIGHT COLD DEVELOPS INTO
PNEUMONIA AND MikADo HAS
HIGH FEVER.
DOCTORS ISSUE A BULLETIN
They Tell OF Increased Temperature.
But Insist There Is No Cause for
Aiarm-Wllson Cables His Sym
pathy to Emperor.

Tokyo, May 24.-The mikado Is seri-
ously III from an attack OF pneumonia.
II had been known for several days
that the emperor was i'll but II was
not until Thursday that the illness
was known to be serious.
The court physicians issued the
following bulletin:
The emperor. who has been suffer
ing from slight cold for several days,
lungs. We do not consider that his
condition justifies anxiety. but his
temperature Is high
Yoshihito, who is thrity-four years
old. has never been OF robust health
and at the time he assembled the
throne fears were entertained that his
reign would not be long one. From
time to time have come rumors that
the good man." as he Is known by his
subjects. had developed tuberculosis,
but these were always promptly de-
MED officially.
With these reports OF Ill health per-
sistently prevalent. the news OF the
emperor's illness came as a distinct
shock to all Tokyo.
The populace had last seen the
ruler on May IS, when he attended a
military review and appeared in his
usual health. The following day It
was announced that his majesty was
indisposed as a result OF severe
cold contracted at the review and the
bulletin of the physicians that the
emperor had developed pneumonia
and an attendant high fever Is gen
orally construed TO mean that the
acter.
Yoshihito began his reign last year
under the official title OF great righte-
BUSINESS" or Tais,o. He is a man OF
liberal tendencies and modern views.
Washington. May 24.-Secretary OF
State Bryan and Ambassador Chinda
will resume the active discussion OF
the California land law situation next
week, according to information avail
able the state department Thursday.
The date OF the conference has not
been definitely set. but it is known
that the American reply will be con-
clusively discussed at the meeting
Official dispatches from Tokyo in
dicated that the Japanese government
is far from being satisfied with tho
American reply to the original protest
against the enactment OF the Webb
law. The United States reply, accord
ing to foreign Office officials at Tokyo.
is regarded there IS being entirely
too frank in its tenor and in a man.
ner insulting to the Japanese nation.
While government officials here ad-
NIT that the language OF the Bryan
reply was frank, they claim that 1t
was no more 80 than we're the terms
of the original protest.
Acting tactfully at a time when re-
lations between the two governments
are reported to be trihe strained.
President Wilson sent a message to
the emperor OF Japan, Offering his
hope that the latter have a speedy re-
covery from the illness from which
he is>suffeping. The cable follows:
His Imperial Majesty JOSH Hito.
Emperor of Japan, Tokyo. e..
Reports received through press
agencies are current to the effect that
your majesty is indisposed. | have
heard these reports with sorrow and
with great concern. Should they prove
to be true l desire to offer to your
majesty for myself and for the gov
eminent and people Of the United
States, the assurance of my sympathy
and to express the ardent hope that
your illness may prove to be OF brief
duration and your recovery rapid and
complete.
WOODROW WILSON"