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Show j MRS. SUN-YAT-SEN A LEADER 1 if y -o i The latest news from China shows that the transition from Imperial tc Republican rule is encountering all the shoals and currents which beset such changes. It is fortunate that such men as Yuan Shih-kai and Dr Sun-Yat-Sen are in a position to lead the nation. The latter's wife is a remarkably intelligent-looking woman. Yuan Shih-kai's action in submitting a list of the boards of ministers has been much criticised in Nankin. According Ac-cording to the terms of the provisional provision-al constitution this duty belongs to the premier. Several of the names proposed by Yuan Shih-kai are likely to meet with strong opposition from the assembly. Even China Is not without its suffragette problems, for in response to a petition from Chinese Chi-nese women the assembly have adapted adapt-ed a resolution approving the principle prin-ciple of women suffrage but relegating its realization to the background. Trouble is still prevalent In many dis tricts among the unpaid troops. Kiangsi soldiers raided the pay office just recently re-cently at Nankin, but were repulsed by Cantonese troops. Two of the mutineers mu-tineers were killed. At several points on the Yangtse from Shanghai west-wi:-ii, where there are large forces, the question of pay is causing dissatisfac-Vxia, dissatisfac-Vxia, which the provisional government is unable to appease owing to the ' iiilcli in the loan negotiations at Pekin. |