Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-02-01

- DSe@
Transport, "Po Pix" in the China
Sea, October %, 1921.
Last Saturday, DR.. Sun Yat-sen
left the Southern Capital, Canton,
on this boat, for a tour of military
inspection in the Provinces; and DR..
WI Ting-Fang became the acting
president.
Yesterday, DR.. WI, with a repre-
sentative of the Governor, thirteen
members of the leper work commit
tee, and others Of US, left Canton, to
visit the island which DR.. WI has pur-
chased and donated for a model leper
colony.
My wife and 1 are the only foreign
ers in the party; but my wife is not
the only lady aboard, as two Chinese
ladies came, one of them being the
wife of Rev. Frank W. Lee, pastor,
teacher, editor and Commissioner for
Foreign Affairs in Canton.
We were to have taken this trip
several days ago, but for the fact that
President Sun needed this particular
boat; but he sent it back for us as
soon as he reached his first stopping
place. Acting-President WI, on &C
count of this delay, will not he able
to get back to Canton in time for the
regular meeting of the Cabinet next
Monday, so he has postponed that
meeting till Tuesday!
Affairs of state and government
boats are giving the right of way to
the leper work just now! This is the
fifth time the writer has been given
the use of Chinese g%un-boats for
trips like this, to the islands in and
near the Cantor, delta, one of which
Tai-Kam Island, has at lsat been Sc
cured-all through the generosity
and good offices of DR.. WI, blessings
on the venerable statesman, who so.
loves his people, and is so loved and
trusted where he is best known! In
recent years, all kinds of boats, as
well as two aerop.anes, have been
used by the scribe, who has been
working on the problem of such an
island colony off the 81 zap coast of
Kwong Tung Province, for more than
ten years; and whose prayers and la
bors have now been rewarded by the
assurance of large financial help from
America. We are planning to take
care of several thousand lepers on
that beautiful and most suitable is
land, here in the China Sea, about
ninety miles as the crow flies, in an
almost ~southerly direction from Can
ton City, and about two miles from
the shores of Chik K'ai County, until
recently a part of the County of
Summing.
Summing and the 81 zap section are
famous the world over, as the home
of the tens of thousands of Chinese
who are in business in America and
many foreign lands; and in a semi
circle, southwest, west, north, and
northeast of Tai-Kam Island, there
is much of historic and general in
terest. San Wool County, The noes
trail home of DR.. WI, is in plain view,
especially from the island belonging
to it, where in 1879 the last of the
emperors of the Sung dynasty made
his last capital, and lost his life, with
the coming of the troops of Kublai
Khan. St. Johns Island, where Fran
els Xavier died, in 1862 is easily e
from our island. Also in plain view,
are the shores of Heung Shan Coun-
ty, the home of China's first presi-
dent, o f his son, the first mayor of
Canton (Mr. Sun Fo), of former
Premier Tang Shao-Yi land of other
famous men. These paragraphs are
being completed after u return to
Canton-so just a line here to say
that, on the return journey, u boat
anchored neal the home of MI. Tang,
and DR.. WI took US to call on his old
friend, who showed the keenest in
terest in the work we are doing, and
presented us with a small tree from
his beautiful garden, to plant on Tai
Kan Island, which he also promises
to visit. 1t was intensely interesting
to hear them chat. Both have served
as premier of all China, and have held
other high positions in different parts