THIS AGE OF BOMANCE

Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4181, 2 March 1934, Page 6

THIS AGE OF BOMANCE

The cynic and the world wearied exAlalm {against thus drab period in history and declare that the age of romance is very dead. It isn’t, iteallv. Proof thereof is afforded in the cablegrams in the Star recording the enthronement of Henry Pu Yi as Emperor Kang tell of Man cliu. latterly Alaiichukuo, formerly Mane'huri-.i Pu Yi holds the world’s record in that lie is the only man ill history who within a. span of 2G years has been twice unowned as an Emperor. At the age of three years lie became the monarch of the vast Chinese empire. In his 18th year he fled from his capital city when General F'en<was enforcing the new republic. In the see-saw of war and politics the young Emperor returned to Peking, only to plead that lie he left to live his life quietly a-nl not as a monarch. Still they worried him. so lie took the remarkable step of crossing" the threshhold of the Japanese legation and has since been under the protection of that nation. He did not want to he an Emperor, although his family had been China’s, rulers for 300 years. He would rather write proise and verse than rule. But Japan traded on his gratitude and his 'patriotism. So here lie is hack in the emperor business, lending his great family name to a buffer State and serving the purposte of Japan. if not China. Exit Mr Henry Pu Yi, scholar and gentleman —enter Emperor Kangteh of the ancient Ching Dynasty.