ILL-FATED PRINCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1922, Page 5

ILL-FATED PRINCE.

FORMER KOREAN HEIR. DEATH OF FIRST-BORN. Tokio, May 12. The tragedy of racial hate and suspicion continues to dog the footsteps of Prince Yi, the former heir of the la§t Korean Emperor, and his young wife, the Imperial Japanese Princess Nashimoto, whose only infant son has just died at Seoul, where the couple were making a visit in order 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 tlie bane \ias poisoned by Korean haters of the Japanese Imperial House. The police censor notifies the Press that “such foolish rumors must not be published.” The Press generally expresses grief, and offers condolence to the parents, while debating possioie political consequences.