ILL=FATED PRINCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 29 May 1922, Page 7

ILL=FATED PRINCE.

— — .—♦— . I FORMER 7KIOREAN HEIR. TOKIO, May 12. The tragedy of racial hate-and suspicion continues to dog the footsteps of Prince Vi the former heir of the last Korean. Emperor, and his1 young wife, the Imperial Japanese Princess Nashimoto, whose only infant son has just died at Seoul, where the couple were making a visit to show to the Korean people their baby, which links the Royal houses of Japan and Korea. .The marriage of this couple was postponed, as the result of the, sudden death of the Korean Emperor, which precipitated the Korean revolution for independence. Two years ago the delayed marriage was solemnised behind military guards, who were required to protect the couple against assassination by Korean revolutionaries. Stores of bombs were discovered at the time. Now the first fruit of the union lies a tiny corpse in the old Korean capital, with-the sensational section of the Japanese press hinting that the babe was poisoned by Korean haters of the Japanese Imperial House. The police censor notifies the press that "such foolish rumours must not be published." The press generally expresses grief and offers condolence to the parents, while debating possible political consequences. -