The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-01-05
OLD AND NEW
MEET ON SHIP
Chinese Revolullonists aud Scion
OF Royaists, Passengers
on China.
From wednesday . AavsrtIser.l

From Wednesday = Advertiser)
Strange was the racial mixup on
board the Pacific Mail steamer China,
when she sailed into this port yester-
day morning. In the cabin was Tai G.
Lu, brother Of Bu Fa Fang, secretary
of the chamber Of commerce at Picking
and in the storage were nine members
of the Young China association Of San
Francisco. Tai c. Lu Is going home
as fast as he may, in the hope of being
able TO save some portion Of his ia
theirs vast estates from the hands of
the revolutionists. The leaders of the
nine insurgents in the steerage are go
ing to confer with DR.. Sun Vat Sen
about the work that still remains to be
carried ON throughout the United
States.
Heading the revolutionists are Lum
Chu Hoon, secretary of the branch of
Young China association in San Fran
cisco, and with him in the leadership
of the party is Loui Chuck Sam, assist
ant secretary. The remaining seven
may be members of the revolutionary
party eager for chance at the fight
ing which may yet take place in their
home land.
Friends of Hoon and Sam went
aboard the steamer at her dock yester-
day and secured permission for Hoon
and Sam to visit ashore. They were to
be the guests of Mr.. Tsai, editor of the
Liberty News. In order to obtain per
mission for the revolutionists to come
ashore it was necessary to obtain the
consent of the immigration officer and
deposit bond of FIVE hundred dollars
for each of The men. This money was
put up By Mr.. Hoon and Sam and paid
over in shining yellow double eagles
and eagles into the hands of Purser
Lander.
Tai Lu is the first of the Chinese stu
dents in the United States who has
been called back to his native country
on account of conditions growing out of
the present revolution in that country.
He has been a student at Andover
Academy, Andover, Mass, and has just
completed his entrance examinations
for Harvard. He has been recalled be-
cause the revolutionists have seques-
tered the family fortune, and his
brother, La Fa Fang, secretary of the
chamber of commerce of Picking, is un-
able to pay his tuition and expenses
any longer. Lu IS father, Lu Bow
Chang, was a member of the Cabinet of
the present dynasty, but died two or
three years ago, shortly after Tai Lu
entered Andover Academy.
He says that within the next sixty
days there will be over 200 of the 600
Chinese students in this country COM
PEELED to return to China on account of
the damages, and the appropriation of
family fortunes by the revolutionists.
This does not affect the Chinese stu
dents who are here in the different col
eges through the $20,000,000 indemnity
fund paid by the Chinese government
to the United States for the Boxer
uprising, but affects only the sons of
the royalists who have been attending
school in this country.
He states that he has not received
any word of the movements of the rev.
olutionists or of the royalists, except
ing that which he has read from news
paper accounts, and the only thing that
he knows of the progress made by the
I revolutionists is that he received a
cable and letter from his brother in
Peking calling him home, and sending
him sufficient funds to pay his trans
portation and expenses to Yokohama,
Japan, where he will be met by his
relatives and the situation discussed as
to the future course to be taken by his
family to mend it's fortunes.
He said that nearly all of the stu
dents who had been sent to this coun-
try by the governments of the different
provinces would have to return on ac-
count of the unstable condition of the
Chinese securities and the lack of
money.
He refused to discuss any of the
phases of the revolution, saying that
he knew nothing authentic.