Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-05

lHe most Important quaHty Tor "a great
leader on whose shoulders tne future OF
millions and millions hangs; indeed, we
are glad to indorse his way of not APP
pearing in the very front of the work.
but rather hiding in the background. /
have often heard about his accuracy OF
criticism on military affairs which sur
prised the Japanese officers; where did
he get that knowledge? 1t goes without
saying that he was remarkably born,
even for the military art, but it is, after
all, from his reading that he developed
it to his friends admiration. The follow
ing is found inMr. likes article in the
Jill Shmpo: -
1T was in July of 1910 when he was
here that / heard the most elaborate
criticism he made upon the plan of Cart
baldfs operations for the Sicilian inva-
sion, after he had showed me the voiumi-
nous life of Garibaldi; and I was glad to
know accidentally his own tactics toward
China through his comments on Italy I
have a reason here for shouting banzai
for Sun, when I heard of the fall Of
Shanghai which was at once followed by
the occupation of Chiangyin by the Revo-
lutionists; / cannot help admitting him AS
a taetician today The Chiangyfn Castle.
20 Chinese miles away from Shanghai. is
the strongest fortress, from which even
one cannon would be sufficient to destroy
the nayies afioat upon the Yangtse
Kiang; when the revolutionists occupy
it, the Government warships will be en-
trapped quite easily as If mouse In a
bag
His determination well balanced with
his usual caution as a great man OF ac-
ton who can manage the biggest. most
risky thing quite easily. may be seen
from the following story found In the
interview that Mr.. Totem Miyasaki, SUMS
japanese colleague of many years. gave
to the writer of the Central Review re-
Gently:
. I have many instances which have
made me a through and through admirer
of Sun. and I have promised myself that
/ will do him, SO to say, servicedof horse
and dog. and, If occasion demands. offer
him all my own life; my high opinion of
him first began in 1898 when ] went to
support SUMS revolutionary rising at
Kwangtung As the people know WELL
the plot leaked out before it could be
carried out; all we revolutionists except
Sun We're taken by great surprise and In
at the time. We attempted to run away
at once when we were informed that the
Government army were coming to be-
siege us; but Sun begged us to be quiet,
and babe us to collect all the messages
we had exchanged with the other revolu-
tionists, and burn them together with
the register of the names of those VINO
had promised to work with US. AS it
from Hong Kong the next day, Sun said
that he must send message to tell them
not to come as they would all De killed
at once by the Government force; when
the message had been sent out, he babe
us cook plenty of rice and to feed our
selves we'll He called a coolie. after ne
had rined sufficiently. and asked him to
give him his clothes in place of his own.
He changed his dress Immediately, and
most quietly went out disguised as the
coolie and mingled with the other coolies
who swarmed around the wharf. That
was the way he escaped the fate Of hts
first revolutionary failure; he was then
only Is years old. Where is, l wonder.
another man who can command such
self-possession when the greatest danger
is imminent. whose wisdom is always
ready even when death holds him by the
throat?'"
He is today only "A years old, full If
vigor in body as well as in mind. He is
the last son of Sun Yaoshui of Hsing-
shu, of Kwangtung province. the honest
farmer; 1t was his uncle who partook in
the affair of the TAPPING Rebellion. that
gave him spiritual development which
made it easy for him to understand the
American democracy with which ne
soon came into contact. When he re-
turned in his 14th year from Hawaii,
where he stayed for two years under mis-
eldest brothers protection, he was again
sent to the capital of his Kwangtung
province for medical study which was,
however, more advanced at the foreign
medical school in Hong Kong, whittier
he moved from the capital. 1t seems that
he was already acquainted with the revo-
lutionary principles while he stayed in
the capital as he made a close friendship
with his two FELLOW medical students
On French'ih and Picl'en, who were then
the acknowledged leaders of the Sanho
,.ui. the society of Highbinders as said
before: when he became a student at
the Hong Kong school afterward, his
mind seems to have been made up to
spend his whole life for the cause of
revolution. and his determination was
strengthened when he found Chin Shao-
pal, WI Lich and two others among his
fellow students, who have been more or
less constantly working with him ever
since. He has failed hitherto in his at
tempts as the world knows WE'LL and he
has gained more strength and determi-
nation from each failure; not only for
Sun himself. also for the general revo-
lutionary movement, it was good that us
failure took him abroad now to America,
then to Europe where he learned the new
knowledge and studied the Western Re-
publicanism which is to be adopted into
China If the movement STANDARDIZATION
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