The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-11-30
By JAMES A. MILLS


Emperor Kang Teh of Manchou
kuo, the empire" which Japan has
set up in Manchuria, has been de-
scribed as the "loneliest and most
monarch in the world"
Other kings live in great marble
palaces, surrounded by courtiers,
brilliant members of court and So
ciety. But Henry Pu-Yi, as the en-
peror was known after he lost the
renowned dragon throne in China,
lives quietly and almost alone in
the old salt administration build
ing which the Chinese abandoned
here years ago.
This building resembles a barn
more than a palace, yet the demo-
cratic young emperor is said to be
against the construction of a more
suitable domicile until all the other
state buildings in this new capital
are completed. Meantime Japan has
built magnificent palace-like
home for it's ambassador here and
he lives in grander style than The
emperor.
Virtually A RecluSe
Since his enforcement three years
ago, Emperor Kang Teh, whose
name in Chinese means, mobile
Virtue" has been out of Hsinking
only three times-once to worship
at the tombs of his ancestry in Muk-
den-again to review Manchoukuo's
army and navy at Hardin, and fl
nally to pay a visit to the Emperor
of Japan at Toxic. His Majesty, who
is 33 years old, spends the greater
part of his life behind the gray
brick walls of the drab and forbid
ding salt administration building
near the Chinese quarter of the vii
lage, where he might well be re-
cluse.
The emporer's Japanese protectors
apparently feel that if the "Son of
Heaven as the emperor is called,
ventures out too much, he may ex-
pose himself to a possible attack by
disgruntled Chinese seeking revenge
for the emperor's alleged betrayal
of China in favor of Japan.
The walls and gates of the emper-
or's solitary home are covered with
barbed wire, and charged with cleo
tricity. In each of the four corners
of the royal compound, forming a
part of the high brick wall around
the enclosure, is a staunch block
house, bristling with machine-guns,
barbed wire and hand grenades.
OF late months the emperor is
said to have become more inaccessi-
BILE than ever. The japanese au-
thorities advance no reason.
Dull Existence
1t was suggested by other Japan
csc informants that the Chinese
courtiers around the emperor did
not wish him to be bothered by for
eign visitors. The Chinese. on the
other hand, declared his Japanese
mentors wished to isolate him from
foreign influences.
In contrast to the dazzling splen-
dor in which he lived in Picking,
when he was ruler over China S
10000, 900 people and had hun
dreds of concubines, eunuchs, cour-
tiers, and numerous astrologers,
Kang Teh now occupies five small
rooms in the salt administration
building. Virtually his only COM
panion is his 30-year-old wife, who
is said to be a semi-invalid. And
there are few antediluvian Chin
csc philosophers and wise men,
whom the youthful sovereign saved
from the old dynastic regime in
Peking when China became a re-
public.
His majesty's house is furnished
SO simply that the visitor might
take it to be the home of an Amer
lean workingman in moderate cir
cumstances. The only ornament the
visitor would look at twice is the
golden thronechair, which was made
in Japan.
Kang Teh's only recreations APP
parenuy are tennis, reading and
the radio. He is very studious.
When he is not absorbed in the
study of problems of state, he is
immersed in the classics of Con-
fucious and other Chinese sages. Be-