Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-15
CHINESE REBEL LEADER.
Picturesque Career of Or. Sun Vat
Sen in Many Lands.

The present outbreak in China is
recognized as having all the distin-
gushing marks Of revolutionary plot
of Sun Vat Sen. This brilliant Chinese
organizer has previously engineered at
least four attempts to overthrow the
present Chinese government, not
counting those lesser attempts that
have failed to come within unpleas-
antly close range of success.
A strange thing above Sun Vat Sens
long series of rebellions is that each
serious one has as a rule proved more
formidable than the one preceding.
Another remarkable feature in connec
ton with his schemes is his command
of funds.
DR. Sun Vat Sen, a slim little man
with the air of a scholar about him.
has been n thorn in the flesh of the
Manehu dynasty for many years, says
the New York Times. Since some time
i'll the COS there has been price on
his head, but he has slipped noiseless-
ly about the world, escaping the nets
of the imperial authorities and always
active about the revolutionary propa-
ganda on which he hopes some day to
build the fulillment of his dream-a
Chinese republic for the Chinese
sun Vat Sen was educated in Homo
lulu, where his father was a Chinese
merchant of considerable means. 1t
was while a medical student in Hong
kong that he was thrown in with
countless numbers of his fellow coun-
trymen who had returned to China
from all parts of the Western world,
and had brought with them much of
the history and Soma of the Suirit
the popular governments in Canada
and the United States. Out of this
element was formed the China Reform
"A Association, housed in Hongkong and
back of one of the most daring plots in
the history of the empire. And Sun
Vat Sen was credited with conceiving
the conspiracy.
One morning in 1896 native chapel
Keeper in one of the Christian mis-
sions near the city gate at Canton re-
eeived a note asking permission to
store what purported to be large
consignment of cement barrels on the
missions premises Unfortunately for
the conspirators, uneasiness was al
ready abroad in the land, and Chris
tians had just been notified to remove
their families to places of safety, so
scented trouble and RUSHED it to the
American consul, who lost no time in
getting word to the viceroy.
Meanwhile a message had arrived
with the report that several thousand
conspirators were leaving Hongkong
by boat to arrive in Canton the next
morning. Troops We're called out, who
broke open the barrels, TO find that
tn;, - n
the weapons for plan that included
the Staying of the mandarins and the
call to an uprising of all the revolu-
tionary clubs and organizations in
Canton. The same troops met the in
coming boat from Hongkong, and a
few Of the rebels on board were cap
tured. AS soon as it was discovered
that San Vat Sen had devised all this
trouble a large reward was offered
for his capture, alive or dead, but he
anticipated the action and left the
country unobserved aboard a steamer
for the United States.
He spent three months in San Fran
cisco and few knew who he was as he
moved about Chinatown talking things
over with the leaders of that world.
Presently the China Reform Associa-
ton began to appear in the form of
branches in every important Chinese
settlement in this country. Hundreds
| wore the badges of the society in San
Francisco, but the prospectuses all
dwelt on the remaking of China by
peaceful means.
When Dr. Sun Vat Sens identity
| became known in San Francisco he
disappeared. He was next heard of
in London and in difficulties there,
for he was arrested and imprisoned in
the Chinese legation. In behalf of the
Manchu dynasty an effort was actual-
ly made to kidnap him and smuggle
him 10 China, where he would surely
have paid with his head the penalty
for his activity against the throne.
He managed, however, to pass a let
ter out from his place of imprison-
s,sAr+ and this fell info the banda Of