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Rheumy-eyed Prince Saionji, the tottering Last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen) again had to rack his withered old brains last week. He and the Sublime Emperor faced another assault by Japan's big navy jingoes. Some 60 officers of the Imperial fleet, all potent sea dogs with the rank of captain or higher, had just laid reverently but firmly before the Throne a petition dangerous as dynamite. They asked the Son of Heaven to tear up in his infinite wisdom the chief naval treaties to which Japan is a party and to demand naval equality for her with...
...This crime and other "purifying assassinations," all supposedly performed by patriots, are considered to have put corrupt politicians "on probation"?with no prospect of getting the Government out of the hands of the military for the present. Thus last week Premier Saionji had to advise the Emperor to choose another fighting service premier, another admiral or general. Courageously the Last of the Genro advised and the Son of Heaven appointed as Premier about the least quarrelsome sea dog to be found in the Imperial Navy, Admiral Keisuke Okada, retired...
Born. To Wilhelm II, 75, onetime Emperor of Germany: a great-grand-daughter, first child of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, eldest son of the onetime Crown Prince, and of Dorothea von Salviati, a commoner whom Prince Wilhelm married in June...
Until this winter the Premier-killer sat in jail, was let out after the Sublime Emperor joyously decreed a general amnesty to celebrate the birth of Crown Prince Tsugu-no-Miya (TIME...
...Emperor Rang Teh (Henry Pu-Yi) of _ Manchukuo. Manhattan's Painter-Philosopher-Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich found a new Head of State upon whom to bestow the Roerich Museum's insignia, first class. Reason: Manchukuo's contribution to world culture...