Show NINES DEAD MI DOWAGER IS A five year cearold old child Is heir to th taft throne but prince chun his Is I father will be regent 1 5 the emperor of ohina china was reported dead at 4 on friday information as to the last hours of the emperor are unobtainable there being all sorts of rumors one being that his majesty was transferred trans ferrea to the death chamber at 2 in the afternoon and that at that hour he was still breathing simultaneously with the removal of 0 the emperor to the death chamber in the forbidden city the members of the lie grand giand council assembled in the palace the dowager empress was present at the meeting and Is reported to have it Is reported that the empress dowager may imly not recover two imperial edicts were issued from th palace friday afternoon atter noon in quick succession the first makes pr hn EMPEROR OF CHINA prince chun regent of the empire s and the second appoints his san son pu pit wel wei heir presumptive prince chun is a brother of the emperor his name is tsal tsai fong feng and he succeeded mcce eded to the title of ills his father prince chun in 1891 he Is arleu a lieu tenant general of the plain white banner corps and visited germany in 1901 1961 as a special commissioner of the throne the death of the emperor of china brings to an end the reign of bf a S sov OV erelyn feeble fdale in mind and boak body who lis has been dominated all tits his life by the all powerful influence of the dowager r i empress kuang esus reign will be completely lost in the rule of the empress I 1 the emperor was born in 1870 hla his succession to the throne was one of the many arbitrary prid and illegal acts ol of the dowager empress who adopted him bilm into succession from a gene generation the same as that of his predecessor cessor although the conven convention tion of tho the manchu chu dynasty and precedent provide that the succession shall go to the next following generation |