MANCHU EMPIRE

Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4180, 1 March 1934, Page 8

MANCHU EMPIRE

MON A ItCH C It O W N ED (Aust and N.Z. Cable) (Received March 1, 2.1;3 p.m.) Shanghai, March 1 Henry Pu Yi. last of the Cliing dynasty, which lasted 300 years on tlie throne of China, was made Emperor of the newly established Manchurian Empire, at sunrise today, when he assumed the dynastic name of Emperor Kangtah. To signalise his enthronement a large number of political and criminal prisoners were granted an amnesty and their property restored. Today’s ceremonies make Pn Yi not only the newest ruling sovereign ai the world-, but also the youngest, the new Emperor being only 29. He gets a salary of five million dollars a year. Manchukuo hereafter will be known as the Great Maneliu Empire. Owing to the delicate state' of her health, the Emperor’s wife, whom I’m Yi married at the age of 33 years did not take part in the ceremony today. excepting a few high ranking Japanese officials, no outsiders were permitted to fiaze on Pu Yi making his solemn ministration to Heaven.