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Show Rising Man in Chinese Empire i HIS EXCELLENCY 3HENC-WSUAM-HUAI PEKIX. "When things look dark est the man appears." Ko runs the Chinese proverb. Kor two years and more China has heen in a condition of drift. Ever since death tore the reins of government from tho firm srTRKp of the old empress dowager the end and aim of Chinese officialdom haw been to avoid assuming rponsi- hility. If the result has not been fhanee, it has been a eondition almost an dangerous and quite as uoKatinfae-torv. uoKatinfae-torv. The ship of elate has been drift ins; about rudderless, at times peril ouslv rinse to the rocks. In the opinion opin-ion of many Chinese, a crisis is near at hand. Is hheng Huan Hual the man foreordained fore-ordained to play the role of deliverer? It begin to look so, for Hhenff is certainly, the man of the hour in Pckin. " While the currency reform and industrial in-dustrial development loan agreement, in the negotiation of which Americau financiers and. incidentally, the Amer ican government, played the foremost tuirtM, was signed by Duke Tsai Tho as president of the board of finance, hheng was throughout the chief ncgnti ator for the Chinese government. The n hole thing was, in ftu-t, in his hands. |