Show YUAN KAI AS SEEN AT OME Nephew of Great Reformer Reviews Man Han Erom Chi Chinese Chinese nese Standpoint 1 New Nv N York Jan 9 Y S Wan the nephew of the great greal Chinese reformer Rang Yu Wei Vel who is In III the city said in an interview with a of the tite Associated Press today The American people have made a mistake in 1 S Kal Kait recently dist dismissed from his great LI office In Poking was a reformer Not I only was he not a reformer but a destroyer of reforms C CIt cIt It II was Yuan Shi Kai Kal who aused the failure of the progressive move moe mont in 1898 of which the late em emperor emperor emperor Kuang Hsu was tie tho leader as isted sted by bj a group of enlightened and amI brilliant officials and scholars to together together together I gether with a small email number of the merchant class The empress d dow dowager w ager agel who was an Intense conservative i iwas was the directing mind of the party opposed to The emperor in I order to strengthen ills position to protect himself and to exercise the full I powers of oC a ruler to which he lie was entitled took Yuan Shi Kal Kai Into his hi confidence and influenced him to or a modern army arm He organized j the army betrayed the emperors plans to the empress s dowager and j I became her ber principal Instrument In iii n too the i coup of 1898 which annihilated the influence of the reformers at court and reduced the JhO emperor to a mere j I jward ward of the dowager empress who thereafter there fter used the supreme power of the state II It was vas natural therefore anti and inevitable that the progressive Intelligent In j jand I and able regent Prince Chun should dismiss Yuan Shai Kai Kni from irom his office and separate tho regency from his j detrimental Influence I should like to assure Americans j that there thoro will be no serious i outbreak In China In conse cons consequence consequence quence of or Yuan Shi Kais Kals disgrace nor will nIll there be bc any to foreign In Interests in tho tim empire Yuan Shi Kai Kal has hIlS lost esteem by having pursued a i personal selfish policy The rho people of China Chinn since jince tho the Boxer disorders have become more enlightened j i If there should be outbreaks in the interest of ot Yuan Shi Kai ICal It would be because certain of his nis friends might foolishly believe that they could in intimidate j the regency into restoring him to influence or succeed in enlist enlisting enlistIng I ing lag foreign support In his behalf I Mr Ir Wan Van added that thai Yuan Shut Kal I I probably became better known abroad than thun any other Chinese statesman be because j cause he be came more moro In contact with I foreign envoys DO S who came to regard him as sincere in his professions of I respect for foreign institutions Ions |