Show r Y PRINCE SHOT DOWN FAMOUS JAPANESE STATESMAN SLAIN BY KOREAN AS HE STEPPED FROM TRAIN Entire Nation of Japan In Mourning for Prince Whom the Masses Idolized as the Greatest Commoner of Country TokloNews has been received Here that Prince Ho the famous Japanese statesman has been assas natcd by a Korean at Harbin Prince Hirobumi Ito was perhaps the greatest statesman of now Japan The achievement with which his name has been chiefly associated In the minds of occidentals was the framing of the Imperial constitution by virtue of which Japan took ner place for toe I first time in th9 ranks of modern I civilized states As the emperors trusted adviser and the medium through which the state was placed on a constitutional basis he must be regarded as one ol the positive factors which have helped to win for Japan her present standing among this nations Prince Ho Wag Gi years of age Hlrobutnt Ito a prince of Japan but the greatest commoner in the empire em-pire had stood for two years between Korea and the degradation of Immediate Imme-diate annexation hoping to build up that country anew He was shot down ashe alighted from a special train at Harbin Manchuria to which he went from Toklo in his capacity as president of the privy council on a mission or peace The boy crown prince of Korea is I reported to have been Inconsolable when the nows of the assassination of his aged grand tutor was broken to him The entire Japanese nation Is mourning the Hags on the foreign embassies have been placed at half mast while all public and many private pri-vate functions hae been abandoned Pro Japanese and foreign newspapers news-papers appear with black borders Only the death of the emperor could arouse similar demonstrations of sympathy |