This Emperor, Prince Yi, Snr's., faner we a puppet and, in 1907, Japanese influence managed to have him deposed and his soa, present Prince Yi, Snr., elevated to the Korean Throne. But it was evid-lent that this monarch was also only a mere puppet—a puppet in the hands of Japan. ater, to be exact on August 29, 1910, Korea was annexed.
Prince' Li, who has spent. most of his in. Japan, hur. ried to the former's bedside.' Here it is necessary, to explain the re-Iationship between Prince Li, Snr., and Prince Li, Jur. The two princes are really brothers, the former born in 1874 and the latter in 1897, but of different mothers.
'When Japan annexed Korea, it was arranged that, according to Japanese custom, Prince Li, Jur although Prine " Li, brother, be adopted as the son, thus making Prine the' successor of Prince Li, Sar. Prince Li, Jur, was afterward given ti Princess Nashimoto, e Princess of 1907, a party of Koreans sent a secret envoy to The Hague to declare that Korea was really an independent kingdom and should be regarded as such. Japan's influence was then paramount in the peninsula which was really being ruled by Prince Ito. Prince Yi, Snr., then "Emperor" of Korea, was held responsible for this "violation of the convention regarding the Korean Protectorate," and was forced to abdicate in favour of his half-brother (afterwards made, by law, his son), The new "Emperor" was thus" only ten years of age, and was forthwith brought to Japan to be "better educated." In 1920, he married Princess Nashimoto.
'A Few More Mysteries Soon after their union, a child was born, a 6 Arrangements. were being made for the parents to take their first-born to Korea to present the royal babe to Prince Yi, Snr, when by general belief a lady of. the Court poisoned the fant. This is the universal convie~ tion in Japan, but no one is allowed to talk about it. The Indy of the Court afterwards, according to reports, committed suicide, Princess Yi, Jur, has been ill several times, Japanese declare that this is the dastard work of Koreans in order that no Japanese, even a half-Japanese, may some day have the right to sit on the Korean Throne. Koreans, on the other hand, declare that it is impossible for them to get so close to the person of the Princess, Anyway, ever since the murder of her first-born, the Princess has' become sterile. This is another of the mysteries connected with the Li Family that has not yet been solved.
Prince Yi, Snr, according to the latest reports is progressing. This because he consented to be trontin' accordance with modern medical methods, having hitherto stubbornly refused to take any treatment other than Chinese or Korean,
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