The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-21
DR.. SUN s WIFE
WILL co TO
JAPAN
Rebel Leaders Mother
Will Also Brave
Capture.

Willing TO brave the possibilities of
capture and the consequent certainty
of Imprisonment and execution by the
Chinese Government, the mother and
wife of DR.. Sun Vat Sen, the famous
Chinese revolutioaist born in Homo
lulu, are about to leave Honolulu for
japan, and eventually they will join
DR.. Sun somewhere in the Far East.
Mrs. Ahmi and her daughter-in-law
arrived from their home in Maui this
week on the Claudine and in Homo
lulu have been the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Chang kim, Kauluwela. Both
ladies have been residents of Maui for
many years and have lived in COM
parative seelusion and quiet. When
they We're preparing to leave their
home there, little concerning their fu-
ture movements was divulged, but the
intensity of feeling shown at the mo-
ment of parting indicated that their
departure meant long absence from
their old home.
olutionist, the mother and wife know
? that the Government of China watches
every move they make, and should an
opportunity offer to seize them, it
would be taken advantage of, for there
is a price on the head of DR.. Sun and
members of his family, as there is for
the head of Leung Chi Tso, another
reform leader.
On leaving Maui, expressions of
grief of those who were bidding Mrs
Ahmi and family goodbye indicated
chat they were not only going to Ho
nolulu, but possibly were about to en-
bark on a voyage fraught with grave
dangers to themselves. Mrs. Ahmi is
a woman of strong character and of
high birth, having the small feet of
the class in China which regards foot
binding as a sign of breeding.
The two women, and possibly other
younger members of the revolution
lists family. will remain in Honolulu
until the latter part of the month or
early in January, when they expect to
leave for Japan. DR.. Sun maintains
headquarters in a japanese city, and
there they will be taken care of and
guarded as zealously as the person of
fbe doctor is wherever he goes. If
DIR. Sun is now in the Straits Settle
ments. the women will eventually leave
for some port there, where they will
be met by the revOlutiOnists.
For nearly sixteen years Mrs. Sun |
Vat Sen has resided in the Hawaiian |
Islands. and the only times she sees |
her husband are during his infrequent |
visits here The last time he was in |
Honolulu was in 1904, just after the
Supao incident of Shanghai, when DIR.
SUN gave many interviews on the rev
olutionary movement in China. He |
has a son about sixteen years of age, |
who now attends st. Louis College, |
and two daughters, The daughters |
NAV accompany their mother and |
grandmother to Japan, but the son
will continue his schooling here.
Since the death of the former EN-
peror and the Empress Dowager, lit
tle information has reached the revo-
lutionist sympathiZers in Hawaii from
DIR. Sun as to plans for the future, but
the fact that DR.. Suns relatives are
to visit him may mean that he will
he a very busy leader in a short time.
The revolutionary movement in the
north and center of China is said to
be growing.
The present boycott by China
against everything having any connec-
tiou with the japanese flag, whether
IT be merchandise or steamships, was
due TO DIR. Sun. The Tatsu Maru, a
Japanese steamer seized at Macao re-
Gently by the Chinese authorities at
Macao. was laden with arms and am
munition for DR.. Sun and his revolu-
tionists
DIR. Sun Vat Sen was not only born
in Honolulu, but educated here at To-
Iani College. He is regarded among
young Chinese here as a model of the
modern Chinese, after
whom they could well pattern their
own lives. Tolani College has gradu-
ated many Chinese who have become
identified with the al
vancement of the Chinese nation.
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