THE LEADER OF THE REBELLION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1298, 29 November 1911, Page 7

THE LEADER OF THE REBELLION.

DR. SUN YAT SEN AND HIS PLANS. (By a British Sympathiser.) It was in Victoria, tUo capital of British Columbia, that I happened to hear of the arrival of Dr. Sim Yat Sou, the famous Chinese revolutionary leader. I succeeded in discovorng him in a small and modest hotel on tho outskirts of China Town. It was apparently chieflv patronised by WO rking■ men. 'the proprictor told mo to go to No. 7 and knock at the door. It was eleven o'clock in did „!! and as £W M '""eking tt 5° „T du .5 e J", ,y ' cffect ' a rough-look-a d '&,, P ?S n i hu, »d«r]ng at tho door and shaking tho handle, notwithstanding my protests. At last the door oponc f gised for tho noise for which I was not responsible. Ho took it in good hum our, and promised that he would look -no up at tea-time at tho EraprosHotel 1 was struck with tho fact that the .™ face LkA* f l th r e *»' "laces Tw^iV^ 1 "?- from unexpected sorvtLn a " th ,° t,m .° und «r the obsorption of several pairs 0 f Chinese .In tho afternoon Dr. Sun Ynt <?.,„ reasoned, and c g a ' r lf,,it ?i e ' a J on S. '«ent of China? ™ff» tbou S h t-out stateod uis piffi 0 f andl then addman is not verv Infil i ho Cfl maW little by Lpo °]n?t , Can do ■on. Ho apbrecLfpc £ ° h,s lmae«nalosic. His Wist i= m ,- mon , se - nso ««"> Put in the pSflangu n g e Plai n n r fa , cts and that his ."A-*™ 0 or tor hour of hearing his accost' T*? ** "red 0 their conn Cnt % SufferiD B s C»ina,nen had ML" 10 "'any t«n« to tho funds of t u V nt, , ro f °rSociety, and that Lm-t' 0 . Kev <>iutionary crippled thcZlvTlv th« fSS ' m ? a had tjons. Tho revolution L , 6 " u scn> cd by the. isS\i £**>■» S«* chinerv all tho bS f 3 -" n J pr , ovcd m *~ ThJp C A , r 7 and Jhe Revolution. era million .dherenW// sTn Yafc Sen has informed mo corrcctlv n ? ac on'the^iS 01 ? flf tho ~, ! odcr »™v Rn?»rl • i. .of the revol "t onaries. The Government knows the power of the IjZ vohitionary party, and it knows that t£ modern army is practically °oHd for v 7 yolnhon. Therefore it relies for it, „™ blindTv ?L th 6 ° ld , ''Xv" blindly the men who nay them. These are provided with cartridges, but the U J„n j P ract "c« only five cartvidecs are allowed per man in tho modern army and only small parties are given firing practice at a time, in order to prevent a nsmg. Dr. Sun Yat Sen told mo that their greatest difficulty was to obtain tho control of an arsenal. Apparently tbS revolutionaries havo succeeded in overcoram.- this difficult. According to tho Mnrt*™' J ' haT ° oapturod ah ™ ar " Tho object of tho revoluticnaries is not to replaco tho present monarchy by another one. Dynasty has followed dvnastv ,vet_ tyranny and corruption have remained. Therefore tho revolutionaries aro determined to elianjre tho form of government and to introduce a republic The doctor told me that the Chinese were so highly educated, so law-abiding, so easily led, and so much given to co-opcra-ii J- i 116ro wouW 00 no diffirultv in establishing a republic. His ideal is a form of government similar to that of the United States. There are to bo representative Chnmtors for every ono of the Chinese province?, with a central Chamber representing the whole Empire. A Price on the Leader's Head. , Dr. Sun Yat Sen told me that the central Government and various provincial Governments had put prices on his head which amounted in the aggregate to 705,000 taels, or about JC50.000. There must be a great temptation for a Chinaman to murder Dr. Sun Yat Sen. Tho . greatness of the reward explainod to mo 1 why I was carefully watched when knocking at tho doctor's door in the morning and when talking to him. We dined together and chatted about the future of China till midnight. I wanted to accompany him to his hotel, a distance of three- ! quarters of a mile, partly from courtesy, ' partly in order to protect him in case < ho should bo attacked. But tho doctor ] absolutely declined my rejected offer, and ' when I said to him, "You must spare yourself for the sake of your cause; you must not go at night unaccompanied through the streets of a strange town," lio smiled, and quietly said: "If they had f killed mo sonic years ago it would havo j been a pilv for tho cause. I was indis- ( pcnsablc thou. Now my lifo does not matter. There arc plenty of Chinamen to take my pla:e. It does not matter if they do kill me." 1 saw Dr. Sun Y"at Sen repeatedly during the following days. He invited mo > to a magnificent Chineso banquet, attended by the leading Chinamen in Vancouver and Victoria, and in conversing with them I found all of them animated by the same quiet patriotism and determination / which I had found in their leader. Their , great anxiety was whether tho Western g nations would allow them to reform t China in their own way. , My impression is that the Chinese revolutionaries deserve the sympathy of tho civilised world, that they deserve success, and that they will havo.success. Tn mv opinion it. would be n serious blunder for any of tho Powers to intervene, either ■• by'talcing tho part of the corrupt Govern- I ment against which Iho Chinese havo } risen, or by trying to rob China of part J of its territory in the present confusion. * Such a step would not only bo very unjust to the Chinese people, but would' also be very unwise. A regenerated China—and China is bound to become a great and powerful nation—would never forgivo r> those who had tried to support the pre- o sent Government ngainst tho Chinese u people or to lake advantago of China's a druggie for robbing the country.—London 'Daily Mail."