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...TIME, May 3). They came in behalf of "The Son of Heaven," the abdicated Emperor Henry P'u-yi, a handsome clear-skinned boy just turned 20, who ascended the throne in his nurse's arms at the age of two, and toddled down from it, an obliging six-year-old, after the Republican revolution of 1912. For Henry the petitioning delegates asked justice: fulfillment of the abdication agreement of 1912 whereby he is entitled to receive an income of $4,000,000 a year and to retain the incalculably valuable Imperial estates. The delegates reminded Super-Tuchun...
Throughout Japan the local police vainly attempted to suppress "loud-wailing parties" (Aigo) indulged in by friends of the late (TIME, April 19, MILESTONES) Emperor Yi of Korea (deposed 1910). The Japanese Cabinet voted to expend 100,000 yen ($47,000) upon a stupendous funeral, to be held over his remains...
Died. The abdicated Emperor Chok of Korea, 52, known since the annexation of Korea to Japan (1910) as Prince Yi, head of a dynasty which reigned in Korea from 1392, detested and unrecognized by Koreans for having signed the annexation treaty and permitted his son, "Prince Yi Jr." to marry the Japanese Princess Nashimoto; at Tokyo. The baby son of the Princess died inexplicably, last year, while she was visiting in Korea. It was suspected that Korean patriots poisoned...
...blocked kick in the last quarter gave Pittsburgh's sloppy team a victory after it had been badly outplayed all afternoon by Washington and Jefferson. Score: Pittsburgh 6, Washington and Jefferson 0. Not many people are conscious, perhaps, that the initials D. & E., ki-yi-ing in the tassel of a cheer, stand for Davis and Elkins, a college in West Virginia. Army Cadets last week heard those initials screeched at them by the supporters of a team which they barely managed to edge...
...Added the non-partisan Yi Shih Pao: "The tariff autonomy proposal is a mere formula. . . .The result of the conference is easy to predict...