FATED PRINCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 120, 23 May 1922, Page 5

FATED PRINCE.

TRAGEDY DOGS FORMER KOREAN HEIR. , TOKYO, Mar 12. The tragedy of racial hat* and sii-.-pieimi continues to dcg the footsteps rf Prince Vi, th" fornvir lioir of the laet Korean Emiwror. nnd hie young wife, the Imn?rial .Japanese Princess Vanhimoto, \viir>ee only infant son has ju«t died at Seoul, where the couple werp making a visit in orcV-r to show a bahv combiniim the Imverial and Roynl houses to the former Emperor, it? prandparent. and to the Korean people. The marriage of this couple was postponed, as the remilt of the tragic endden death of the Korean Emperor whHi orecipitated the Korean rerolution for independence. Two years a<;o tho delavpfl marriage wns solcmiiißed liehind military p-.iards, who were required to guard against assassination by Korean radicals. Stores of hornb* were discovered ft the time. Now the first fruit nf the union lies 3 tiiiT fovpsc in t.he old Kore.in capifil. with tiie sensational section of the Japanese Prea* hinting that the babe was poisoned by Korean haters of the Jananese Imperial House. The police rensor notifies the Press thnt "ftufli foolish rumours must not he published." The Press generally expresses grief and offers condolence to the rerents, while debating possible political consequences.