The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-07-10
SUN YAT SEN
Il. CALLED TO.
Of MANCAUs
Famous Chinese Leader Who
Was First Provisional Presi-
dent Of Ancient Country, Again
Summoned to Take Reins
SOUTHERN PROVINCES ARE
RALLYlNG AGAINST MONARCHY


Doctor Statesman lntimates In
Statement That He May Soon
Call Upon the United States To
Intervene In Far Eastern Tangle
tAssociated Press by U. 8. Naval Com
munication service)
G HANGHAl, Iuly 7 - Sun Vat
- Sen, leader Of the first sue
cessfur revolution against the
Manchu dynasty and the bureau
cratic government Of China and
the first Provisional President Of
the Chinese Republic, was yester-
day again placed at the head Of
a provisional republican govern
ment and empowered to call upon
the forces Of Southern China to
depose a Manchu Emperor once
again. r-
THE call upon Doctor Sun was
made at a meeting Of military
leaders held here yesterday. Pro-
visionaI President Sun has been
making his home in This city for
some time, following his return
from Tokio,Where he lived in exile
for a number of years, following
the accession to power of Yuan
Shih-kai. Doctor Sun is known
to be a bitter enemy Of the Man.
chus and the imperial form Of
government. e.. - - 4
May Ask Our Aid .-.. .'.s. 7.
In an interview yesterday prior TO
! the call Of the military leaders that
he again assume the provisional presi4
dency, Doctor Sun stated his conviction
that the time was not far of when a
formal request would be made upon the
United States for assistance in help
ing restore republicanism throughout
China That the American government
is anxious to see the Republic conserv:
ed is known, a formal note present
ed to the Picking government some
weeks ago making that plain. This
Is the note TO which the japanese press
took such violent exception. ~ I
T. Doctor Sun according to the publish
cd text of the interview, which was
given out through a Japanese. agency,
stated that Japan had already been
asked to preserve the Chinese Republic,
but that Viscount MOtonO, the Japanese
minister of foreign affairs had refus-
ed, reiterating the statement that it
was the policy of Premier Terauchi not
to intervene in any way in the internal
affairs of China. :
Eituation Grows Complex
The several reports of the situation
that have been received here from
North China only make the situation
more complex and the certainty of
serious trouble more certain. Several
independent parties have sprung up their
alton Of each to restore the Republic
md to depose the Boy Emperor, whom
Chang Hsun and his military circle of
adherents have replaced upon the an.
Gent throne. ''..
One Republican army, led by Tuan
Chi Jul, is approaching Picking twenty
thousand strong. Tuan has announced
that his Is punitive expedition, the
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punishment Of republican China upon
\ a burnn ucratic rebel. He has sent an
uItimatum to Chang Hsun, offering him
Favorable treatment, if he surrenders
himself and the Emperor without resis-
tpnee, with death as the alternative
IL he does not. r"
Revolution Grows
Further complications are involved
in the report that Feng Kwo Chang is
needing another revolutionary move
nsent at Marking, which he has desig-
mated as the capital of the Republic
of South China.
The armed forces nOminally at the
disposal of tho Emperor and his mill
tGTy leaders are said to number 10000,
while, the revolutionary forces cOnverg'
inG upon Picking number in the neigh
bo. hood of $4,000. .. sa
The northern leaders do not expect
Sighting. believing that Chang Hsun's
men win desert him as soon as the
f.sength of the republicans is realiz.
ed. E =.
Reports from Picking state that fight.
ing has already broken out at Lang.
fang, thirty miles southeast of the
capital The royal forces number 5000
end the republicans 10000.
The situation in the capital is SER
i5''s, Trains are carrying thousands OF
refugees 10 Tientsin. Four thousand
irperalists have advanced along the
IIankow railway and are massed -four
miles from Peking, ready to oppose