Fuom Ova Owx Connesonper following account of thi early days of the late Emperor the struggles of hia father against the Conservative elements of the Court in order to preserve the boy's health and Strength, and of the herver in which the late Emperor regarded Bolcheviom, mokes most interesting reading.
Tt would appear that his fear of the Reds and their possible influence on Japan amorited almost to morbidity and an obsession, and had much to do with hie last fatal illness, Tokyo The most blow that the Into Emperor of Japan, who died on Christmas Day, 1926, sustained in life was through the Bolshevik Revolution. Afflicted from his birth with chronic ill-health, the of the Red Terror which yepereussions on his. over-se brain, The atrocities and methods of the Revolutionaries His ate Majesty a very severe blows Japan being contiguous to Russia, he shuddered to think what would be the future of his country should the Red torrent engulf these shores. The Bolshevik Revolution, it'ean be safely and truly asserted, darkened his life, deadened his onl and dealt his already-weakened frame the most staggering blow it had yet sustained, Born on August 31, 1879, in the gth year of the reign of the illustrious Emperor Meiji, the babe was the cause of considerable anxiety. Other children born to the Emperor Meiji, including two sons, Jrad died in infancy and the new {infant also came into this world hhandieapped with delicate health, 'There wax fear at this time that, should the Emperor Meiji have no issue to survive him, the unbroken Tine of rulers, which is one of Japan's proudest boasts, would come to an and, with, according to some, disastrous' results to the country. 'Accordingly, every effort was made to foster the health of the new Prince, Precedent was broken and German specialist, Dr. Bacls, was tasked by the Emperor Metji to look' after the medical welfare of the Prince.
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