A PRINCE THREATENED.
JAPANESE POLITICS. By Cable. — Press Atsociation. — Copyright. . (A. & N.Z.) TOKIO, Aug. 15. The police are closely guarding Prince Yamagata, owing to letters threatening his life as the result of his participation in politics. I Prince Yamagata, a Field-Marshal in the Japanese Army, was horn in 1838, and took part in the civil strife attending the Restoration as Chief of Staff of the Army of Subjugation, in 1877. He was Commander of the Ist Army in the Japan-China War. He was Premier of Japan in 1889-91, and iu 1898-1900, and had a very stormy time. On the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War he succeeded Marshal Oyama as Chief of the General Stuff, and was transferred to the Presidency of the Privy Council In 1909.]
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2030, 17 August 1920, Page 5
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