UNDER CLOSE ARREST
JAP EMPEROR’S BROTHER
Recd. 8.30 p.m. London, March. 11. The Japanese Emperors brother, Prince Chichibu, has been under close arrest for 15 months. He was arrested the day after Pearl Harbour on a charge of being sympathetic to enemy powers.” The Istanbul correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that this was revealed by a traveller from Tokio. The Mikado repeatedly protested against Prince Chichibu’s arrest, but he procured only slight modification of the conditions of his brother s confinement. It was two months before the Mikado even knew his brother had been arrested, because of the almost complete isolation in which the militarists keep him. It was officially announced that Prince Chichibu was suffering from tuberculosis, which nobody believed. The public have certainly not seen him since Pearl Harbour. He was reputed to be a prominent member of the Peace Party in December, 1941.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 60, 13 March 1943, Page 5
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147UNDER CLOSE ARREST Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 60, 13 March 1943, Page 5
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