The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-07-18
CABLE MESSAGES CALL HIM TO
THE FAR EAST.
Reformers Think They See the Hand
of Ii Hung Chang-Important De-
velopment Hoped for.

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 yes
terday received three cable 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 preparation. He got the dispatches
shortly before noon and began packing
up Immediately. In the afternoon he
went with Sun Cheong to Hackfe,d and
Company and booked, taking first class
passage, Sun going under his own name
and Leung under the name he took
when as refugee from Peking, he
became Japanese subject.
From Shanghai, Singapore and Can
ton came the messages that called the
reformer to the far East again. Kwang
Yu Wei, the other reform leader, who
was Leung's companion in Peking be-
fore the Emperor was dethroned, and
whose head is also under a price, was
the sender of one of the messages, and
the willy Chancellor Ii Hung Chang
is said to have been indirectly the au-
thor of another. Ii is at Canton. His
actions have led Leung and other re-
formers to think that he has a good
deal of sympathy for the reformers. A
a few weeks ago, purporting to have
come from Ii, in which the writer eX-
pressed a wish that the reformers might
succeed and urged them to continue
their work. Now that affairs have TAX
en- the turn they have, it is the opinion
of some Chinese that Ii is getting
ready to open his arms to the reform
element, if it should appear that the
reformers 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 progress
sive party. Viewed in this light the
sudden calling of Leung is regarded by
many as possibly the beginning of a
highly important development. They
hope that Leung will be called upon to
take the part he was taking two years
ago, as a leader in reform, before he
and his friends We're forced to leave
the country. They also have hope that
Ii Hung Chang will join the reform
party.
Leung has booked only as far as Yo-
kohama 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 de-
cides to return there At present the
reward of $685. 900 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 hes
| itancy in going when called
The sudden return to the East means
an abandonment of Leungs projected
trip to the United States. HE has done
I = II 1y~l I
! Bow Wong supporters this morning,
land would have done 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.
I think that 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 ap-
pear 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 all the kilograms he re-
ceiVed. Many of the Bow Wongs think
that the reform element is about to
make it's effort, perhaps with the back
ing of Ii Hung Chang, to get into pow
| er 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 gov
ernment, and the success of the plan
would end the war that has just begun
with the powers.
Leung has been in the Hawaiian ISL
ands for several months, during which
he has converted practically all the
Chinese population to the Bow Wong
or reform party. He has won the
warmest admiration of all the Chinese
and has made close personal friends
LIE q F1tc
All agree in praising him as an earnest
and very eloquent speaker and the pa
pers he has written and addresses de-
livered here show him to be man OF
education in world affairs, and of lib
eral turn of mind. His friends here
expect to hear from him after his ar
rival in the East and hope that the neal
future will see him back in Picking
taking part in public affairs, with rc
fear of assassns who would earn blood
money from the Empress Tsian.
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