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...Turkey, the "Young Turks" revolted, with Europe's approval. In China, the Dowager Empress died, closely preceded by Emperor Kwang-su, and China passed to two-year-old Pu-yi. It was evening for the dynasts...
...that young man such good reason to suspect that he would be murdered that, with the aid of his British tutor, Mr. R. F. Johnston, he escaped the guard set over him by Feng, fled to the Japanese concession at Tientsin and still resides there as "Mr. Henry Pu Yi...
Such testimony from an Elder Statesman with the majestic record of Tang Shao-yi is of weightiest import. His career began, like that of Candidate Hoover, in the development of large engineering enterprises and led to government posts comparable in China to that which Mr. Hoover now holds in the U. S. Tang Shao-yi was Managing Director of the Imperial Railways of North China in 1900, and shortly afterwards became High Commissioner of Customs under the patronage of the great Viceroy of Chihli and subsequent President of China Yuan Shih-kai. Before the advent of the republican regime, Tang...
...explaining his championship of Candidate Hoover, last week, Tang Shao-yi declared with emotion: "I am actuated ... by a sense of justice, and also [by] gratitude for Mr. Hoover's acts in rescuing my family during the Boxer uprising . . . when he lived across the street from my family in Tientsin...
Tang Shao-yi might have added the concluding detail that Rescuer Hoover wrapped up a Chinababe in his coat, during the fire, and dashed with her from the house. She, a daughter of Tang Shao-yi, grew up to become that very great and smart lady, Mrs. Wellington Koo, whose husband was, before 40, ambassador to two big nations, twice a minister in the Chinese cabinet, twice a delegate to international conferences, and to the League Assembly...