Evening star., 1900-08-18
LEUNG CHI-TSO, REFGRMER.
Received Cable Messages in Hawaii
Calling Him to the Far East.

| Leung Chi-tso, under his japanese name
of kashimabala, left yesterday evening on
| the steamship Nippon Maru for Yokohama.
accompanied by Sun Cheong of this city.
| The reformer yesterday received three ca
bic messages which had been sent from the
orient to San Francisco and forwarded here
by the Nippon Maru. They urged him to
| come at once" Leung lost no time In prep
aration. He got the dispatches shortly be-
| fore noon and began packing up Immediate
ly. In the afternoon he went with Sun Che
| ong to Hackfeld & Co. and booked,
| taking first-class passage, Sun going un-
der his own name and Leung under the
name he took when a refugee from
Pekin he became a japanese subject.
| From Shanghai, Singapore and Canton
came the messages that called the reformer
to the far east again. kwang Iu Wei, the
other reform leader, who was Leung COM
panion in Pekin before the emperor was de-
throned and whose head is also under a
price, the sender of one of the mes
sages, and the willy Chancellor Ii Hung
Chang is said to have been indirectly the
author of another. Ii is at Canton. His
actions have led Leung and other reform
ers to think that he has a good deal of
sympathy for the reformerS. A letter was
received here by Leung only few weeks
ago purporting to have come from Ii, in
which the writer expressed a wish that the
reformers might succeed and urged them
to continue their work. Now that affairs
have taken the turn they have, it is the
opinion of some Chinese that Ii is getting
ready to open his arms to the reform ele-
ment, If it should appear that the reform
ers are going to get the upper hand. With
all the powers against the empress dowager
and her anti-foreign advisers it is thought
that now is the time for Ii Hung Chang to
show that he does sympathize with the
progressive party. Viewed in this light, the
sudden calling of Leung is regarded by
pOSSiblV the beginning n q highly
important development They hope that
Leung will be called upon to take the part
he was taking two years ago, as leader in
reform, before he and his friends were
forced to leave the country. They also have
hope that Ii Hung Chang will join the re-
form party.
Leung has booked only as far as Yoko-
hama. There he will be in close touch with
other eXiled reformers and will be close
to his own country should events SO shape
themselves that he decides to return there.
At present the reward of S65,ooo for his
capture or murder is still offered, and he
would certainly be speedily put out of the
way in any city where the empress dow
ayers sway holds good. In Yokohama the
young reformer is in much more danger
than here. as he is on the steamer, which
has many Chinese steerage passengers. but
he had no hesitancy in going when called.
The sudden return to the east means an
abandonment of Leungs projected trip to
| the United States. He has done his work
here said one of his local Bow Wong sup
porters this morning, land would have done
a lot more good work in America If he had
not been called the other way. He wanted
to go to the United States and work there
in behalf of just policy toward China.
L think he will now meet with the other
reformers, and that together they may help
in the restoration of the emperor"
None of the Chinese in Honolulu appear
to know Just what is in the wind in the
far east causing the sending of the three
dispatches to Leung He did not show al
the kilograms he received. Many of the
Bow Wongs think that the reform element
is about to make its effort, perhaps with
the backing of Ii Hung Chang to get into
power again and restore the emperor, If he
is alive. In this event Leung Chi-tso and
Kwang Yu Wal would be leaders In the
work of reconstructing the government. and
the success of the plan would end the war
that has just begun with the powers.
Leung has been in the Hawaiian Islands
for several months, during which he has
converted practically all the Chinese popu-
lation to the Bow Wong reform party.
He has won the warmest admiration of all
the Chinese, and has made close personal
friends of the biggest Chinese merchants
here. All agree in praising him as an earn
est and very e'oquent speaker. and the
papers he has written and addresses de-
livered here show him to be man of edu-
cation in world affairs and of liberal turn
of mind. His friends here expect to hear
from him after his arrival in the east and
hope that the near future will him
back in Pekin taking part in public affairs.
with no fear of assassins who would earn
blood money from the Empress Tsian.