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Show TINY GENERAL IS HOME & 45 IS LIBERATOR OF CHINA Broken in Health, Crippled in " Body, He Is Still Fighting in His Daydreams. SAN FRANCISCO, May C Broken in health, crippled In body, still fighting fight-ing In imagination the battles of a cause now won, General Homer Lea. late of the Chinese revolutionary revolu-tionary armies, arrived here today from tho Orient by the liner Shlnyo Marti. A frail, shrunken little figure, swathed to the chin in a sheet, the gcnoral lay In- a barber's chair for the few moments newspaperman were permitted to sec him. He paid no attention lo them, and llu-y did not press him, for his thoughts were on the other sldo of the world. "Forty-two hundred men." he would say, staring at the ceiling, "that's not so bad. Yes, wo can do It. We will do It." Mrs Lea. who Is in constant, watchful attendance on the general, as she always calls him. attended to the remainder of the Interview. I-lc was nccompanled by .Tuc Wn, personal per-sonal representative of Dr. Sun Yut yon. Tho latter was assigned by the leuders of the Young China association to ac-companv ac-companv General Lea to his homo In Los Angeles and afford him proper care and protection. When the steamer docked General Lea was carried from his stateroom state-room to a waiting carriage on stretcher. Before the revolution in China, Lea was with Dr. Sun Vat Sen In London and went with him to China. General Lea pronounces the report that (he new government In China is In dire need of financial aid unfounded, and says that it was nrobobly circulated by London, Paris and New York financiers who desired de-sired to lend money to the new republic For manv years General Lea has been an authority on military matters In China. Hp was once decorated by the Chinese emperor for services to the Manchu crown. He Is the author of the "Valor of Ignorance" and several works on mllltarv- subjects. Ho graduated from Stanford university in IS0S. He has a world-wide reputation as a soldier of fortune When a boy in Denver and at the high school In Los Angeles. Lea began his plans for leading a Chinese revolution. In L03 Angeles he drilled squads of Chinese Chi-nese spldlers, en nipped with wooden guns. Ho is only a few Inches over fivo feet In holght and Is a hunchback, but is endowed en-dowed with tho indomitable spirit and iron will of which Napoleons am made. |