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Show YUAN SHI KAI ONE OF THE LEADING MEN OF HIS TIME In recent yearB Yuan Shi Ka has become the n ost consp cuous personal ty of the or ent through h s efforts to br ng h s 400 000 000 fellow yellow men nto 1 ne as c t zens of the new republ c of Ch na The task o tu n ng th s most anc ent and backward of k ngdoms nto a republ c with n whose conf nes there was a f fth of the world s nhab tants a republ c four t mes as large as the United States was obv ously no easy one and the man who attempted it d d not escape storms of c t c sm from those who held that he was ado tator v rtually found ng a new dynasty B t among fore gners gene all Y an Sh Ka was g ven ed t for as able an a 1 n n strat on as could be expected un le the c r umstanres 1 ong before T uan S Fa was w do y (Continued on Page Thirteen.) yiii sm Km is to BECOME II 11CH (Oantinuod from Page One) known abr a 1 ho lad loon a optol by tl o Manch a tho Chinese a i the for 0 gners in (h na as a con ing man Boru n 1850 tho son of a distr ct governor i the p o ince of Ho an V a Shi Ka sp red to nn oiflclal po s t on b t the r le was hat official 1 fe was open o ly to tl ose vho )assel anc ent classics 1 an ttorlj tailed n one of those go e n ent tests at which tho sands of asp ants a e clos eted for th ee dajs indorsing oxamina t on He vent nto Korea as ft secrota y w th the am v and there rose rapidly thro gh h s d splay of m litary and d p lon at abil ty Tho fan o s Gad Chancellor L H ng Chang recog ized ah a an of action an 1 sppo nted h h ese rosidont at Sooul This was the h ghest post in the enpre and an 1 oil t be he vas only jenrs oil V1 on the lapa ese d o e the Ch neso ou ot I orea le was one of tie few to ret r to Pok ng sti 1 in tho fa or of the co rt Reorganized the Aimy He rose to great j on inonce tl ro gh h s effo t e reorgan zation of the ar j after tie war w tl Japan had sho n ts weaknesses It s geno ally held t at he ass sted the en press dow ager n effect g a coup d etat u 1898 bj w h ch she wreBted the throne from the emperor Kuang bhu and ho was popularly accused of betray ng the en peror The dowager ajpo ted h n governor of Shantung where d r ng the Borer rebel! on he d splayed h s astuteness Inv ted to io n tl e Boxer sect he iared not frankl ref se. al tho gh he had no sympatlij for the r fanat c sm He agreed to io n the Boxer mo en ent f ts leaders would pro e to b n their content on that those of the r sect were mmune to fore gn bul lets He told them he had one of the fore gn guns n h s own house and that if the leaders would meet h n in his garden the next day he would stand them p aga nst the wall and try the fore gn de Is n ag c on then If the bullets d A not nurt an would become a Boxer s bl me was the fa th of one leader that ho s bmitted to the test anl accorl ng to the story fell dead at the fust r fie bullet, wh ch ?erced his heart luan Shi rial was bus freed from any obi gat on to join the fanat e movement of the Boxers Ab a matter of fact he was given cred t for material ase stance to the fore gners dur ng the warfare wh ch the all es waged in Ch na Dismissed in Disgrace With the death of the empress dow ager and the Emperor Kuang Hsu al most co ncidentally and poss bly each by poison at the hands of the other the ch Id emperor Hsun Tung came to the throne under the regency of Prince Chun Yuan presumably because he had ga ned such a co trol of the armv was d sm ssed n d sgrace although nominally on pretext of cur ng a sore leg vThen the anti JIanchu rebelhon broke out in October 1911 the Manchu regency m despa r urged Yuan to re turn The latter replied that h s leg was not jet well but when g en au thor ty as supreme commander of all forces of the north he acceptod He also becan e the f rst prom er of the respons ble cab net wh ch the re gency offered the rebels as a concess on of peace But neither tl e rebels nor i an were eat sf ed The abd cat on of the Manch r lers was for ed and the bov emperor at the 1 etat on of 1 an Sh Ka authorized he prcm e to organize w tl the rebel lea lers at Sank ng a Republican form of go em ment Sun Yat Sen the prov sional pres dent of the southern rebels was forced to ret re and lUUn Shi Ka was elected pro s onal pres dent of tho Ch nese re p bl c at Nanl ng on Tebr ary 191" lie took the oath of off ce at Pek ng the follow ng month |