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Sponsors of these drastic measures were at first announced to include Finance Minister Dr. T. V. Soong, who would have to find the money for a Chinese military adventure and Sun Fo. son of the late, great Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Revolution" of 1911 which overthrew China's ruling Manchu House. Next day Dr. Soong and Mr. Sun denied sponsoring the resolutions which, nevertheless, had passed and produced immediate results. Within a few hours Chinese patriots stole into the British Concession at Tientsin, approached the residence of the Japanese Consul General, threw a bomb which exploded with much...
...cantered on horseback every morning, a pleasure he has not had time to take for months. Because China simply had to have a Government, the Nanking political muddle unsnarled itself faster than might otherwise have been the case. Cantonese Dr. Sun Fo (son of the late, great Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic") was chosen President of the Executive Yuan, equivalent to Premier. At the same time the Executive Committee of the Nationalist Party tinkered with China's organic law in such a way as to reduce the powers of the President and make that office resemble...
...crashing wave of affairs that brought an end to the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek (see col. 2) last week raised an echoing rumble from Shanghai. In Shanghai lives a demigod's relict, the widow of the late great Dr. Sun Yatsen, who lies in a $3,000,000 tomb outside Nanking, venerated as the prophet of the Chinese Republic. Mme Sun Yat-sen was educated at Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga. and Wellesley. She is a sister-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and a member of the "Soong Dynasty," the family that controlled the Nationalist Government...
...most potent Chinese family, includes the First Lady's brother, Finance Minister T.V. Soong, and her sister, Mme H. H. Kung, wife of the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius. Split off from the Soong Dynasty by a family & political quarrel is Mei-ling's sister Mme Sun Yatsen, Communist-sympathizer, widow of the late, great Dr. Sun who founded the Chinese Republic...
...have the Canton rebels sunk, having taken you for their Minister of Foreign Affairs! As a Trinidad-born foreigner posing as Chinese, you were only a messenger boy during the late Sun Yatsen's Government at Canton...