SHAM PRINCES.
According to newspaper coi| pondent in the Far Bast, i| simply impossible for thegreatlpl of the Chinese people to traj whether their Emperor is »liv| dead. Even those who haveaci to his court never know whe| they are dealing with the' | Emperor or with one of bis douf trained to relieve him of somj his ceremonial duties. * A sii| device, it is said, is used to pis oho Sultan of Turkey, and|J latest story of the kind has fj with the German Emperor, 'm reported to be desirous of seeing! Frensh Exhibition in safetyj comfort. It is singular that raj history records no actual atm made by a commoner to imperSffl a king. Mr Anthony Hope,J true, works out the idea ial kingdom of Ruritania. but t| fiction. The most success^ imposter that ever lived «;j| false Dimitri of Russia. JM a son of Ivan the Terrible, hm murdered by a Pretender^ seized the throne, when, in Wm occurred to some Polish priesw| if this son could be person^ might be used as a most eoflyssj tool. They trained a yoangj for the part, which he perform well that he was accepted ij Russian people as the verifcab| of Rnrik, and mounting thesj as Czar, he reigned ittgjk months, married a Polish Piffl and but for his "obvious dev6|H the Polish and Catholic as offl to the Russian and Orthodox]™ might have died a reigning In China, tho impersonatioiM be peculiarly easy, except ,fJH treachery, of accomplices, |^ Emperor, when h©iap>peaKf» the people, is solfii^B impassive' idol.r .{ i -^B
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 14, 26 July 1900, Page 4
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260SHAM PRINCES. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 14, 26 July 1900, Page 4
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