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aim is to release hii beloved country troiii llie lorei^^ii rule of 

 the Manclms. TliU sliouki not invohe any very great chanye. 

 The rule is really in the hands of the Viceroys, who yoverii 

 their own provinces, and come only in loucli «'ith the Court 

 at Pekin to send reports and money, tach province really 

 has more freedom than the States in the Unitetl Stales of 

 Aiuerica. Sun Vat-Sen would retain these Viceroys, niakin;^' 

 them subject to a sironi; President, and giving the people a I'.ii- 

 lianienl. Apart from this there would be little change in tli ■ 

 actual machniery of government. 



'* As for any reform of the Court, he regards that as inipo^ 

 sible. He points out that the Emperor is a child, that lli ■ 

 Rei'enl, his uncle, is a weak man, and everythi.ig is at the 

 mercy af intrigues between two Dowager Empresses. " 



(Jii the occasion of one of Dr. Stiti's last vi.sits to 

 London, he wrote to Lord Crewe asking permissiun 

 to land at Hong Kong, in order to visit his mothtr 

 who was lying ill there. Lord Crewe refused, alleging 

 that Sun Yat-Sen was an enemy of the Chinese 

 Clovernment ; but when the doctor was nearing the 

 port, his mother's dead body was brought out to sea 

 in order that lie might take a last farewell of it. 



'• The men who will control the confidently ex- 

 pected republic," said Dr. Sun recently, " well know 

 their responsibilities." They- are travelled men, 

 knowing Paris, LjikIoii and .Aiiierica. Foreign affairs, 

 he added, would tiot be disturbed by the advent of 

 Young China to power. The revolutionary move- 

 ment was and wotild continue to be purely " anti- 

 dynastic." Chinese women, under the new eia, 

 are to be given a legal status, and family life will be 

 entirely changed. Dr. Sun hopes that the J'o«ers 



rhjic-^ntf'h l'y\ 



Yuan Shih-Kai. 



\K...-,,i r>,i 



'I [/,...■;.. ;^..\;. 



General Li-Yuan-Hcng. 



i.e.ukr of the Rcvolulicaary Forces. 



The "Strong .Man of C'liina," who was recalled from 



e.\ile, appointe<i Conmiander-in-Cliief in the disaffected 



provinces, and tiien Premier iti the new (Government. 



meanwhile will maintain strict neutrality, and the 

 Young Chinese, for their part, will do their utmost 

 to prevent any action which could possibly call for 

 intcrventioti. 



Sun Y'atSen is now about forty-nine years of ace. 

 He was born in Hoiioltilu, and about his early life 

 not \ery much seems to be known. In 1892 he came 

 lo Macao, a small island near ilie mouth of the Canton 

 River, intending to practise as a doctor, after leaving 

 Dr. Canilie's medical school at Hong Kong, where 

 he made the actjuaintance which has ri|;ened into so 

 fast a friendshi|). Macao has belonged to Portugal 

 fur more than three and a half centuries, but its popu- 

 lation is chiefly Chinese, with only a section calling 

 iself Portuguese, but really Eurasian. Li Macao 

 island Dr. Sun found the Chinese hosijiial auihorilies 

 willing to assist hiiw in every way, which he describes 

 as " ati event, ' for never l)efore had the Board of 

 Directors of any Chinese hospital given direct ofiicial 

 incouragement to Western medicine. With the 

 I'orttiguese authorities, however, he had coiilinual 

 1 rouble. The law of Portugal forbids the practice of 

 iiK (lit itie within Portiigtiese territory by anyone not 

 possessing a Portuguese diploma. Consequently the 

 I'ortuguese first forbade the Chinese doctor to |)re- 

 sc.ribe for Portuguese patients, then forbade the 

 tlispensers to make up .liis prescriptions, and finally 

 ma le it impossil)le for him to establish himself in 

 Macao island. After considerable losses, he therefore 

 went and b<.'ttled in Canton. 



Li .Macao, however, as he tells us in the inleivsting 



