Millard County Chronicle | 1912-01-04 | Page 3 | Sun Installed as President.

SUN INSTALLED AS PRESIDENT. Formally Inveated With Powera cf Chief Executive, and Firat Official Act la to Change Calendar. Nanking, China ir. Sun Yat Hen on TueHday took the oath of office an proviHlonal preHldent of the republic of China and waa formally Invented with the power! of chief executive, j The ceremony wa! simple but dl- j nlfled. It was attended by all the prominent men of the revolutionary parly. Dr. Sun, who la well known In America and Kurope, after his arrival In Shanghai a jine ten days hko waa elected president by the national aa-aembly aa-aembly of reformera, reprenentlnr; tho province! of China proper, then In Benalon here, by an almost tumultuous tumul-tuous vote. III! proposed cabinet comprises Dr. Wu TIhk FanR. liming Sinn and LI jlluen Yens, who are In the front rank of th reform movement. The first offlclul act of the president presi-dent wiiB to clmtiK the Chinese calendar. cal-endar. He made New Year's day th flrat day of his presidency, thus marking mark-ing the commencement of a new era and making the Chinese year begin henceforth on the same day as the year begins In most other countries ol the world.