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Show YUAN SHI-KAI MAN OF ACTION The most hopeful sign that the new order of things in China will be better bet-ter than the old is the rise of leaders. For several decades the Chinese have tried to arouse themselves from their lethargy, so as to become a wideawake, wide-awake, modern people. In all their struggles upward they have bewailed ' the lack of leaders. Time and again during the last decades it has been said: "China has no great men, no leaders." The revolution brought the leaders. Pre-eminent among these stands Yuan Shl-kai, a man who. though trained in the old school, is nevertheless neverthe-less a modern man. He is thoroughly Chinese and understands the capacities capaci-ties as well as the needs of his people, peo-ple, lie is eminently a practical man. He is not a theorist, but a man of action. Li Yuen Hung, the vice-president, is the real hero of the revolution. He is the man who can arouse the enthusi- asm of the people for the much needed reforms. He received his training In Japan and learned there to be thorough, painstaking and conscientious in all his work. Any reactionary movement would find in Li Yuen Hung a rock against which it would hurl itself in vain. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who originated and planned the revolution, is more of t foreigner than a Chinese, having spent many years of his life abroad. |