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Show YOUTHFUL CHINESE PATRIOT IS DEAD General Tsai Ao, Revolutionary Leader, Succumbs to Affliction Contracted Contract-ed in Field "With Army. PEKING, Nov. 11. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) General Tsai Ao, former military governor of Yunnan Yun-nan province, who was the most prominent prom-inent leader in the revolt against the late Yuan Shi Kai 's imperial ambitions, died in Japan ou November i, according to advices received here. General Tsai Ao was only ofi years of ace, hut he hail figured promin'entiv in Chinese politics and military affairs for more than ten years. . As the time of the monarchical movement, Tsai Ao was in Peking as chief of the land measurement, bureau, and although Yuan Shi Kai endeavored to keep all "extreme republicans from leaving the capital, i Tsai Ao manaced to csraoe to Yunnan ; nrovinrc, where, in less than a month, ; he had organized a revolution which resulted in the secession of that prov-i prov-i nre and that spread throughout south China. , Tsai An personally led his troops in campaigns along the Yangtse, which prevented pre-vented the approach of the northern troops sent to suppress the revolution. Ho shared all the hardships of the field and contracted tuberculosis of the throat, which finally resulted in his death. Parliament adjourned immediately upon being advised of the death of the distinguished patriot, and the press has universally commended him as the restorer re-storer of' the republic. ven the papers pa-pers with monarchical tendencies are eulogistic of him as a loyal republican. |