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Show J PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT J DEPOSED CHINESE, PREMIER I I Yunn SliI Knl, premier of China, who has Sjjgggs been strlppod of all of his offices nnd power, wet jg5Spjjj regarded as ono of tho most progressive states KggljptpS men of tho oriental empire, After cmbarkjng on UnB ,1'8 mc,nl cafcd' ho. was chofly occupied for Vss7 many years with military matters, llo was 1 lt!wr rr among tho first of Chlncso ofllcors to study for- &t h (7 'sn mon0118 ot organization and tactics and to W a appreciate tho necosslty for modernizing the JtflWt'aL k Chlncso nrmy, f TP5rK JL 110 snowcd uuch capacity that ho Was do- .ffllltoJ'?? tallod to superintend tho reorganization of tho 'M SSEfaft (p Corcan army, and for n time, Just prior to tho iWmVC'V China-Japan war, ho was Chlncso resident at 'M '2&'? ScouI' 110 Bcrved ln tho disastrous to China Z&&!f5i!t -Tr.a war ngnliiBt Japan without serious loss of repu- tatlon and prestige, which marked him as a man 'M ot exceptional nblllty. Yunn was not tho father ot tho reform movement In China, but ho sot It on Its legs. Able and ambitious, ho saw ln tho vacancy created by tho death of'Ll Hung Chang his own opportunity to becomo tho lnrgcst flguro In Chlncsa 1 politics. Ho had read tho lessons ot tho China-Japan war and the "Boxer" dls- ' fl order aright. Ho realized that a great chango was luovltablo. Reformers wero already lifting their voices In tho land; had, In fact, boon declaiming ndvnnccd doctrines for yenrs whenovor they dared, and somo had 1 suffored banishment or death In tho causo. Yuan took stock ot tho condition of tho omplro, ot tho moribund nnd timid court party ln Peking, and tho signs H of tho times; and ho scorns to havo concluded that ho could rldo Into powct iH on n reform wnvo. It was Yuan who organized tho modern Chlncso army, dropped out tho H spearsmcn and tho bowmen and tho benrors of stlnk-pots nnd tho makers of loud noises, and substituted well drilled, khakl-clad soldiers, educated by H European officers. During tho Doxcr uprising, with his well trnlncd troops, Yunn was almost tho only viceroy In China nblo to cxtond protection to forolgn llfo and prop-crty, prop-crty, and In his latter position, with extended powers, ho had planned to make fl tho Chlncso national army a force to bo reckoned with by any nntlon. Ho has been called tho strongest man In China slnco LI Hung Chang. Ho Is n thoroughly practical man and brought business mothods to tho, admtnia- '-M tratlon of tho empire. Ho worked assiduously for tho advancement of the .M nilddlo kingdom, nnd his watchword was that China was capablo of uccom- 'H pllshlng just ns much as had Japan. |