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...explosion was the signal for revolutionaries who toppled the Manchu dynasty in ruins, and built unsteadily out of the debris the north-central republic under Yuan Shih-kai and the rival southern republic under Sun Yatsen. Both these "presidents" died,-the former at the height of power, allegedly by poison; the latter a weary exile in cold Peking. China became the spoil of numerous Tuchuns or provincial governors. One year ago, on "the tenth day of the tenth month," there was a relatively stable northern Government at Peking, and the southern Government at Canton weltered in the doldrums of impotence...
...with sympathy parades for the Shanghai strikers. Threats against the foreign population at Canton and Hong-Kong were heard. Foreign troops were landed for the protection of life and property. Strikes were declared, business halted. Suddenly, another situation was superimposed on the first. After the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen (TIME, Mar. 23), leader of the South China Party, his adherents split into two factions: a radical, which retained the name Kuo Mintang; a conservative, formed from Sun's Yünnan supporters, called the Yünnanese Party. The Yünnanese controlled Canton. The Kuo Mintang controlled...
...Peking, the body of Dr. Sun Yatsen, who died a fortnight ago (TIME, Mar. 23), was removed to the Rockefeller Hospital, embalmed, transferred to the hospital chapel for a private Christian burial service...
...Peking, Death won its inevitable victory. Its victim was Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder and leader of the Kuo Mintang (Young China) Party...
Died. Dr. Sun Yatsen, 58, "the perpetual rebel" of China; in Peking, of cancer (see FOREIGN NEWS...