Show 5 TRA THE WIND DOINGS IN ANNAM SHOW DRIFT OF FEELING OF arbitrary action of french in en new king may tate conflict between white and yellow races was the summary exiling by the french of the supposedly insane king of annam shantai Than TaI precipitated by bla sly encouragement of the growing sentiment of asia for the and will the arbitrary enthronement ot the little eight year old boy the fifth the new king on annama ancient throne prince of the kingdom by the french help to crystallize the aggressive spirit of the yellow race and hasten that conflict in the tar east which many profess to see coming such questions are being asked since the recent political upheaval in the little kingdom of annam VI hen aba comat or council of the kingdom which was once great jn the far east and sent resplendent ambas pies to louis XIV although today to day it only furnishes dancing girls to the treaty ports which open their able doors to the mariner from albera to the spice islands at the very ford ble suggestion of M heau the govern or general of the french eastern pos sessions ordered the removal of the stubborn than tal and the elevation of the obscure fifth prince to the dan berous honors ol 01 the throne there was weeping throughout the low lying rice fields which border the great mekong and the indescribably beautiful iilo river how the boy of eight the fifth prince came to the throne under the era name as Is the eastern custom of duy tan or be who is attached to reforms Is a tale as moving aa the manner la which the unfortunate than tal departed from the throne 0 his fathers the new king Is of the royal line but born of an extremely lowly mother she waa not even a secondary wife but elmary a peasant girl who bad entered the service of the pal ace concubines the king loved her however and she bore him the son who Is now called to reign aa a puppet where his father ruled as master to the ayea ot the the ceremony was marked by at least ona innovation of great significance the palace swarmed with french soldiers and when the ceremonies of the coronation were concluded they were not withdrawn hitherto even in days of open revolution and of civil wars which have been so frequent in an nam the sacred precincts 6 the have been respected by the invader this outward sham has been discarded now and the fiction ot native sov falls to the ground the lit tie king Is as much a prisoner in the palace at hue as Is the banished than tal on the lonely strand where the saigon river flows into the sea probably the french were led to make their high handed interference in the native affairs by the unchanging hostility of the ex king and because of the recent treaty with japan by this compact the high contracting powers mutually recognize and guarantee to each other their respective recently acquired domains upon the mainland of asia but it should be remembered that the people with their national as and their riceal feelings make the treaties which last and en dure when the instruments of formal diplomacy have long since crumbled dust or been forgotten the french in the way they made the new king in hue have furnished a new and interesting object lesson of how the white man behaves when he has made himself quite at home in the yellow man s country it la a story that cannot fall to increase the volume 0 the growing cry of asia tor the and it Is a that wll lose nothing in the telling at the hands of the japanese journalists who peered over the bamboo stockade and saw it all as it happened hipp ened |