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Super-Tuchun Chang of Manchuria, overlord of the Provinces of Fengtien, Kirin and Heilungkiang, allied with Dr. Sun-Yat-sen, of Canton and Tuchun Lu of Chekiang. Driven from Peking, where he was Pooh Bah in 1922, by Super-Tuchun Wu, Chang seeks to oust Wu and President Tsao Kun and resume his lordly sway in the Capital. Like all Chinese leaders, he interprets his ambition as a step toward reunifying China. Possibly the whole trouble with China is that there are too many leaders trying to do the same thing. It was rumored during the past week, that...
...Yat-Sen of Kwangtung, self-styled President of South China, known as the "perpetual rebel." He is the intractable foe of Tsao Kun and has joined forces with Chang and Lu in order to crush the power of the central leaders and through victory to "reunify China...
...prove that he is alive (TIME, May 19), Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, Canton Tuchun (War Lord), exiled for ten years the Chinese editor responsible for the false report of his death...
That was the past week's Sun Yat-Sen news from China, as told by newspaper headlines. Dr. Sun, "George Washington of the Far East," is one of the outstanding figures of Republican China. In 1911, he took a leading part in overthrowing the ancient Monarchy, became a Provisional President of the Chinese Republic. Since those days, however, he has been considered one of the main obstacles to the unification of China. Born in 1866, Sun became a doctor of medicine in 1892, and from that year began his intensive interest in politics. The year 1896 found the young...
Captain Pelletier d'Oisy, flying from Paris to Tokyo (TIME, May 12) arrived at Canton, China, was greeted by President Sun Yat-Sen* of South China and members of the French Colony. His total flying time from Paris was 80½ hours. D'Oisy reported heat waves and sand storms from Calcutta as the chief obstacles and predicts the stretch he has just crossed will be the most difficult for the American flyers...