, 1891-08-12
Latter from Prince George Of Greece to His Majesty
King George dCrees'
(7ronslated from a Danish Poper.)
CODE 1G May 1891.

everything is quiet after the dreadful time We
spent in kioto. What we passed throu gh
there, I can hardly describe. We can only
thank God that he protected us from greater
disasters. | will try to explain how it really
happened as the statements Of the papers are
not quite correct. We left CODE by railw " at
4 D m AMI arrived at Kioto at half past 6.
From the station we all went in jinrikshahs
to a hotel in japanese style. A jinrikshahs
is a little twowheeIe1 carriage drawn by one
man. and IN which there is only room for one
person. The reception was very good, all the
streets were decorated with Grecian, Russian,
and Japanese flags, and the children of the
schools in town were placed alongside the
houses. Moreover a great force Of police was
out. In this way we drove to our hotel, where
we arrived near 7 o'clock. We dined, and
afterwards went to a house where we saw the
natives performing their dances. On the fol-
lowing day we drove all around town in the
same way, visited temples, factories and so on,
in short saw all the curiosities Of the town,
which took us all the day. Next day we went
by iinrikshahs to a neighbouring town, called
Otsu, a drive that took an hour and a half. We
here visited temple, in which some japanese
pictures over a thousand years old, are kept.
We then went to he lake, on which Otsu IS
situated, and went on board a steam boat, IN
which we went to a point in the vicinity to see
a tree, which is also said to be over 900 years
old. Here we spent about 70 minutes and
then returned to Otsu, where we went to the
Governors house for luncheon. We came to
the house a little before II and directly took
luncheon. At half past one We were to leave
the house to go home, we therefore went to our
respective jinrikshahs and started. We pass
ed through a narrow street, decorated with
flags and crowded with people. | was looking
to the left, when suddel ~ ! heard something
like a cry in front Of me. ] turned .round and
saw a policeman, who gave Nicky (the Care
witch a blow on his head with a drawn sword,
which he held with both hands. Nicky jump
cd out Of the carriage, and the man ran after
him. Nicky with blood streaming down his
face. Seeing this. l likewise jumped out with
nv stick in my hand, and ran behind the man,
who was something like 20 steps in front Of m
NicLy ran into a shop, but directly after came
out again, so was oyertaken by the man, but,
thank God, / was there at the same time and
while the policeman still kept his sword raised,
dealt him such a blow in the crown of his head,
that he has hardly got one like it before. lie
turned round to me, but at the same time fell
down %fainting the two of our drivers came up,
one caught hold of his feet, while the other took
up his sword, which in falling he had dropped,
and gave him a cut in the back OF his head. 1t
is God, who sent me there at that moment, and
who gave me strength to deal the blow; for had
l come a little late the policeman would have
cut off Nicky's head, and had my blow missed
the perpetrators head he would have cut off
mine. The whole thing passed SO quickly, that
those behind us did not see a thing Of the whole
affair. Nicky sat down, Doctor Plambach
bandaged the wound as best he could, and We
then drove him to the Governors house, guard
ed by soldiers, who had meanwhile come up.
A better bandage was applied, and we remained
in the house for an hour and a half. admired
Nicky's courage, he did not faint once, and did
not lose his good spirits for a moment, still he
had got two deep wounds in his head over one
ear; one wound was 5 centimeters long, the
other 6, and both had reached the skull, but
fortunately had not gone deeper. We then
went with him to the lailway-station, about 20
minutes drive from the house, and returned to
Kioto. Meanwhile we had telegraphed for
Popoff and another doctor from on board. In
our house in Kioto, the real treatment of his
head commenced and took over an hour.
Nicky stood it splendidly. Afterwards he was
in good spirits and had neither pains nor head
ache. After dinner he went to bed and slept9
hours in a stretch, until next morning.
That day there was perfect rain of kilograms
from all sides. The day after the Emperor
himself came from Toxic to see Nicky. 1hey
spoke together for half an hour, and the Emper-