The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-02-23

cation will face, according to res
ports, when it makes its belated ar
rival. The Japanese apparently will
have withdrawn, leaving the destiny
of the new state in the strong hand
of Henry Pu vi.
Henry Pu vi now is about "a years
old. He is frail, mentally and
physically. His eyes are weak, his
body is weak and his mind is any
thing but Brobdingnagian. When
you talk to him, he has a pathetic
way of looking at you wistfully
through an enormous pair of round
Smoke-specS as though he doesn't
quite get you.
His father was Prince Chung,
brother of Emperor Kuang Hsu.
'The Old Buddha"-as the willy,
stubborn, scheming empress dowager
and Boxer queen was called-was
his great aunt. She was VIGOROUSLY
the most persistent back-seat driver
the world of statecraft ever knew.
And as no other Manchu of her
time was permitted to have an opin-
ion, little Henry is said to have been
born so completely without one that
he eve has had any since.
Emperor When Year Old
Nevertheless 1.-The Old Buddhas
and Emperor Kuang Hsu died sud-
denly and a little mysteriously all
most IN the same day, and Pu vi,
then a teething baby about a year
old, assembled the dragon throne Of
his ancestors.
The title of the colicky infant
was Emperor Hsuan Tung, Son of
Heaven and Lord of Ten Thousand
Years. But the revolution came in
1911, and the lord of ten millen-
NUNS found his time cut to forty
eight months.
At the ripe age of 5 years, there
fore, the Sickly little victim of hard
luck found himself without employ
ment, more than that, he and his
encourage were virtually prisoners
in the heart Of Peking, at times al
most without funds. For China al
ways was stony broke and every
year the annuity to the imperial
family was trimmed a little more.
Yet all the time he was the
center of intrigue. Now
Chinese clique would seek to use
him as a pawn, now another. Final
ly, his life in danger, he escaped in
disguise to Tientsin, where he lived
until he took up quarters inside the
Japanese compound.
Prisoner of Japanese
In recent years he virtually has
been a prisoner of the Japanese.
Nobody knew just where he was.
1t was said his life was still in peril
and that it was to protect him that
ne was allowed to live in the Japa-
nese concession.
But, it is pointed out, if the Chi
nese wanted to kill him as humble
Mr.. Pu vi, what won't they try to
do to him as lord of Manchuria?
This question already is said to
nave occurred to Mr.. Pu vi himself.
Those about him insist he does not
want to be president, kin. emperor
or anything else of Manchuria. All
ne wants is to be let alone. well
rid of pesky plotters who try to
use him for their own dark pur-
poses.
Unknown in Manchuria
Pu vi is a Manchu, but not a
Manchurian. He is as unknown in
Mukden as he is in Milwaukee.
Manchurians who have escaned
Japanese Jurisdiction to south OF
the great wall and are free to talk.
say they don't want Pu vi anv
more than he wants them.
Such, in brief. is the story Of the
future dictator" to whom. dis
patches say. the leagues commits
sion shortly viii be introduced by
way of proving that the Japanese
have not interfered in China. either
t~erritorially or politically.
Hardboiled Henry. the Manchu-
rian Mussolini, will be there. crack
ing the whip.
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