PRAYERS FOR AN HEIR
DISAPPOINTMENT IN JAPAN The Empress Nagako, Consort of the Emperor of Japan, has given birth to & daughter. This is the fourth girl bo-u to the Imperial couple since their marriage on January 26, 1924, but the sec ond daughter, Sachika Hisa-No-Miy i, born in September, 1927, only survived for six months. The advent of the Imperial infant was announced by the prearrauged long drawn shriek of a siren. The first blast caused the most intense excitement, fur the arrangement was that one blast should be sounded foi n girl and two for a boy. On the shrill note echoing forth over the great city, therefore, the whole of Tokyo ceased work and listened expectantly, as they had done three times in the past six years—but the second blast never came. There is great disappointment in Japan that the innumerable prayers for a son-air-heir to tho throne so far remain unanswered. The Emperor, fortunately, has three brothers to carry on the succession, Prince Chichibu, who studied at Oxford for some time, being the heir-apparent. Prince Takamatsu, the second brother, with Princess Kikuko, is at present in tne South of France.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 110, 12 May 1931, Page 8
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