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Show iCHINESE LEADER GALLED BY DEATH i AFTER LINGERING FOR SEVERAL MONTHS DR. Y AT SEN DIES I AT PEKIN HOME ; "China's Man of Destiny" Has Members Mem-bers of Family and Leaders of Political Party At His Bed Side Peking. Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. upon whose head the Manchurian dynasty , fixed a price of $200,000 when Dr. I Sun was campaigning for a republic in China, died here from cancer of the liver. He was 63 years old. Called "China's man of destiny" by nnwiy, Dr. Sun was identified with almost al-most every phase of public life in his country. He was first president of the republic created in 10T2, and iln recent years he had maintained an administration styled the "Southern government of China," at Canton. In his declining years he opposed the central government at Peking. Dr. Sun was stricken when he arrived here late in January as a delegate to a conference having for its purpose the unification of China. Dr. Sun's experience as a surgeon in his youth provided him with a sustaining sus-taining philosophy during his last days. His physicians said that the extension of the life of their patient was due lo his refusal to admit the seriousness cf his condition since he underwent an operation on January 2G. Dr. Sun believed until the last that he would recover. At his deathbed Dr. Sun was surrounded sur-rounded by members of his family and several leaders in the Kuoming-tang Kuoming-tang party, the Sun Y'ut-Sen party, who were attracted to Peking by the approaching death of their leader. "I want to be embalmed like my friend Lenin, the Russian leader," said Dr. Sun just before he died. He asked also that he be buried at Nanking, Nan-king, where he first served as president. presi-dent. Dr. Sun was conscious unlil the lust. He gave instructions to his wife about personal matters. He talked rationally to his political associates, as-sociates, and only a short time before be-fore his death he accepted the fact that his end was near. In his will, he left his houses and his books to his wife. It is said the estate of J Dr. Sun was a modest one. His will j emphasized his political wishes and ; the desire for party unity and pi-ace 1 in the ranks of his adherents, depre- I eating any attempt at a revaluation j of the political philosophy of his associates. as-sociates. I |
