Dr. Sun YAT-Sny. 



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The t^mperor of China. 

 Burn at IVkiii, 1906. 



ihe " tub-thump- 

 ing " description, 

 was obviously 

 the best course 

 t o ta k e. Dr. 

 .Sun's addresses 

 ajiparently often 

 List three or four 

 hours, and all the 

 lime his hearers 

 listen, without 

 tiring, to ac- 

 counts of the 

 sufferingsof their 

 countrymen and 

 of the progress 

 of the Chinese 

 revolutionary 

 movement. 



Dr. Sun's party 

 il o e s not lack 

 lunds. He in- 

 I o r m e d one 

 writer that many 

 Chinamen had 

 devoted all their 

 fortunes to the 

 revolutionary 

 ni o V e ni e n t, 

 thrown in their 

 all with it ; in 

 tact, the move- 

 ment has ad- 

 herents number- 

 ing millions, and 

 among its mem- 

 bers are, Dr. Sun 

 reckons, nearly 

 all the modern- 

 ised army, the 

 Government re- 

 lying chiefly on 

 the old troo[is. 

 A consequence 

 oF this is that 

 while the latter 

 former have no 

 great difficulties 



are proviilcd with cartridges, the 

 ammunition, and one of Dr. Sun's 

 has been to acquire control of an arsenal 



His great object a|)|)ears to be to change the form 

 of Chinese (Government, which he describes as " no 

 Governnicnl," and cstablisk a Republic, modelled 

 on that of the I'nited States, with representative 

 Chambers for each Chinese province, and a Central 

 Chamber for the whole Empire. At the st.nge which 

 matters have now loached, he considers that, even 

 ft'ere iiis lile taken, and the ^{^50,000 set on his 

 bead won by some assassin, it would matter little to 

 the revolutionary movement. He told a ZJiii/y Mail 

 writer, who wished him not to go home alone at 



night : " If they had killed me some years ago it 

 would have been a pity for the cause. I was indis- 

 pensable then. Now my life does not matter. There 

 are plenty of Chinamen to take my place." 



Dr. Sun Yat-Sen has often visited London, where 

 his chief friends are Dr. and Mrs. James Cantlie, of 

 Harley Street, and formerly of Hong-Kong. He is 

 said to have had one or two friends among the 

 barristers of the Tenijile, but in general to have been 

 somewhat reserved, avoiding the society of sti'angers, 

 and not easily drawn into conversation by them. As 

 recently as January last he was in London, visiting 

 his friends Dr. and Ahs. Cantlie. He has visited 

 them almost every year since 1896, when he was 

 released from his famous imprisonment at the Chinese 

 Legation, largely through Dr. Cantlie's efforts. On 

 January nth, as Mrs. Cantlie informed a Daily 

 Chronicle interviewer. Dr. Sun left for America, in 

 excellent spirits, but, contrary to his usual custom, 

 without leaving any address to which she and her 

 husband could write. In spite of the jjrice set on his 

 head, he has spent most of his time since in China, of 

 course disguised, and of course often at imminent risk. 



" When he was hero in January," said Mis. C'anllie, " he felt 

 confident that he «as 

 on the eve of a great 

 coup — he spolie so 

 hopefully of success. 

 ' \Ve have tno-lhirds 

 of tile aniiy,' lie used 

 10 say, and then he 

 wuuKl add, ' Vou will 

 soon iiear of nie 

 again.* 



"The impression 

 that great things 

 were coming was 

 curiously confirmed 

 on March 23 la^t, 

 when a London de- 

 leciive — I do not 

 know whether he was 

 from Scotland Yard 

 or the Chinese Le- 

 gation — called here 

 and asked whether 

 w e knew where 

 Sun Vat-.Sen was. 

 We were unable to 

 say, and there the 

 incident ended, but 

 we realised llial he 

 was causing an.\icty 

 to someoiif, and this 

 further prepare I us 

 for the present 

 even Is. 



"It is an u;;ly 

 word, this word 

 • Revolution,' and 

 Sun Yat-.Sen oficn 

 rjiscussed it with us, 

 antl regretted thai it 

 >lK'>uld be necessary 

 to use it in connec- 

 tion with his move- 

 nienl. I'or he is a 

 patriot, and his soli- 



General Yin Chang^. 



Leader of the Inipeiial 'Ik 



