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SUN YAT-SEN DEAD?
THE STORY OF HIS ILLNESS.
·OPERATION USELESS.
Official Statement From Doctors..
(Reuter's Service.)
Shanghai, January 27.
A Japanese semi-official telegram from Peking reports the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, "The Father of the Republic."
NATURE OF OPERATION.
(By Courtesy bf Daily Bulletin)
Peking; January 27. The operation on Sun Yat-sen consisted of a slight incision under a local anesthetic, and he is now merely receiving palliative treat-
ment.
DR.SUN YAT SEN.
The following medical statement was issued this afternoon-
"Sun Yat-sen was seen in con- sultation by members of the staff. of the Peking Union Medical! Collage Tespitol and by Da Heur and Dr. Dipper on December 31, 1924, and it was felt that he had a serious disease of the liver. The necessity for an exploratory opera- Lion to determine-definitely the nature of the disease was explain- ed to him and his family. He chose, however, to try first medical treatment. and put himself in the hands of Dr. Kreig. The medical. treatment was used with apparent benefit until the 23rd inst.. when Dr. Kreig observed a definite turn for the worse. He was seen again by the P.U.M.C. Hospital surgeon on the 26th inst., and he was found, to be in a critical condition. Upon the unanimous advice of his medi- cal advisers, he was brought to the (P.U.M.C. Hospital that afternoon. when an exploratory operation was immediately performed. malignant tumor was found. Dr. Sun Yat-sen's.condition is critical.
(Signed) PAUL KREIG,
J.. HENG LIU,
A
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This morning yet terrible" another tragedy, involving the death London, January 27. And supposed suicide of Mr. F. C. Higgins, has occurred to add to the Reuter learns that a conference gloom already cast over the Colony by the three recent deaths. of the Admirals of the China, East India, and Australia. Mr. Higgins, who was a tailor business. From the terrible nature Squadrons has been arranged to with an establishment in Ice 1 of the injuries and the fact that be held in Singapore within the. House Street, was found at death's he was alive when found it is next few weeks with the object of door at 7.30 this morning by the evident that the fatal wound had exchanging views on the naval Indian policeman on duty in not been inflicted for any con- situation, according it pre-war Kennedy Road.
siderable length of time before practice when such meetings were He was attired in held annually,
There is no question of formu- vince of the Ministers in London. lating a policy, which is the pro- Therefore, the meeting will be matter of ordinary routine and of no special significance.
a
broke out, and the Manchu dynasty, after 267 years of grievous misrule, came to an end, Sun Yat-sen, who had spent his
pyjamas, had discovery. No evidence of a shot life mostly out of China-in plotting. against
sustained shocking head injuries having been heard is yet available and in his hand was grasped but with the continual noise of tyranny that oppressed his people,
been established is his own. He it is doubtful if there will be any the foreign
tightly a revolver which it has crackers in this and other districts came at once to the front, and was
was sitting on the seat near the forthcoming. elected first President of the
big rock round which the road Chinese Republic. Like his father, he was a Christian. An English
diverges at the Ship Street end of lady associated with his father'snow in Hongkong, and H.M.S. house which he jointly occupied Besides H.M.S." "Hawkins," Kennedy Road, some way from the mission was interested in the "Chathamn," now at Port Blair, with Mr. Simpson, who assisted youth, and he was well grounded an Australian warship either him in his business, in English. Sun Yat-sen became the "Brisbane" or the "Sydney"The policeman communicated Official Receiver making an inven- connected with a hospital of the-will attend; and New Zealand with the Central Police station and tory of the goods in the shop: Anglo-American Mission at Can-may also be represented..
ton, then under the director of Dr. Kerr. At 20 years of age he migrated to Hongkong, and here entered the newly opened College of Medicine, becoming the first graduate. Of more consequence to him than his medical studies was the friendship then formed with Dr. (now Sir) James Cantlie.
Dean of the college, who from that time became his devoted admirer and supporter.
Equipped as a doctor, Sun Yat-
SINGAPORE BASE
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According to police information
all the indications point to a case business worry, and a "China of suicide. Mr. Higgins had had Mail" reorter who called at the shop this morning found the
the motor ambulance was sent at the Colony dates back thirty years, Mr. Higgins's connection with once to the spot. Mr. Higgins died when he came out to the East for on the way to the Government the first time as a cutter to Lane, Civil Hospital where his body now Crawford, Ltd. He then travelled. Japanese Government View. lies, a medical and identification for a time in Russia and in the examination having been carried war acted as an interpreter at (By Courtesy of "Day Bulletlo.") out at one o'clock this afternoon.
TORIO, Jan. 27.
It has not yet been established The Government e fully aware whether Mr. Higgins went home and have clearly understood the or not last night, the last Mr. purposes of the Naval Base at Simpson saw of him being at one Singapore as well as the American.. o'clock yesterday when he called naval manoeuvres, stated Vices in at the shop and went out on
of
WHO WILL BE ITS NEXT MASTER?
Above is shown the waterfront of Canton, the metropolis of South China, whose fate is again in the balance if the semi-official report of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's death in Peking
is true."
sen started practice at Macao, but Minister for Foreign Affairs Naka- the young Chinese M.D. was meant mura in the Diet to-day in reply to for political, not medical, service, interpellations. "
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Archangel. It was here that he been associated with him in his met Mr. Simpson, who has since business in Ice House Street. Mr. MACKINTOSH Higgins first returned to the Colony with Messrs. J. T. Shaw & Co. in 1920. He was 52 years of age, a widower, and leaves one son at Home.
Divisional Inspector C. Aris is Fincharge of the police arrange- ments and is making full inves tigation.
OPIUM
PROBLEM.
HOPES FOR EARLY DRAFT
CONVENTION. }
(Reuter's Service.)
Geneva, January 27. Owing to the necessity for pressing on with questions of drugs, the joint. Opium, Committee. did not meet to-day, but private discussions are proceeding.
It
is confidently hoped that the draft Convention will be ready very early.
The Sub-Committee appointed to deal with export certificates have drawn up their report.
ti
INDIAN CRITICISM.
Delhi, January 28.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen's temperature He went to Canton, and there. He declared that those Japanese | COMMITTEE MOTION GOBtion at Geneva had exceeded the
is normal, and the pulse 110.
སྨཱ, !
THROUGH
HEATED DISCUSSIÓN.
(Reuter'a. Scrvlee')'
י.
DELHI, January 27.
In the Legislative Assembly, replying to questions, Sir Basil Blackett (Finance Member) said that, in raising the question of the restriction of the production of opium, the American delega-
instructions of the Council of the League of Nations which wanted, the Conference to consider the; restriction and limitation of the export. The Government of India could not allow interference with its internal policy regarding opium.
became an active Revolutionary who held that Japan's International HISTORY OF THE ILLNESS. Propagandist, and took part in an position was endangered thereby
abortive scheme to capture the were grossly mistaken.
He further stated that the Russo An earlier Reuter cable from arsenal. Of the eighteen leaders Peking this morning stated that
in that project all except Sun Yat-Japanese Agreement, was directed Dr. Sun Yat-sen's
sen were beheaded, and China Purely at the restoration of mutual condition yesterday was, if
anything becoming too hot for him, he fled economic benefits and ducs not slightly better. At 3 p.m. his tem- For a long term of fears there-
to American territory in Honolulu political relationships between the foreshadow any change in the perature was normal. He was
Powers.
La the Legislative Assembly Answering Dr. Datta,, who after he lived abroad in San Fran- comparatively comfortable and
M Baju moved A motion declared that Indian public opin- perfectly conscious.
cisco and other parts of the States,
recommending the immediate ap- ion supported the American view- Yesterday's Reuter cables stated
with visits to England and France,
pointment of a Currency Committee point, Sir Basil Blackett said that that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was taken to studying systems of constitutional land Yard, but in the end the facts with a non-official Indian majority the total restriction of production the Peking Union Medical College government with the intent to reached the Marquis of Salisbury, and an Indian Chairman.
would be too drastic a step for the A rather heated discussion Hospital, Monday afternoon, when apply them some day in China.
who insisted on the captive's followed, in which Sir Basil religious and social customs of the it was understood he would be
Kidnapped In. London. instant release. immediately operated upon for
On one of his visits to London Though there was an offer of that the Government
Blackett, Finance Member, stated Indian people. he ubscess of the liver, his condition emissaries and imprisoned in the capture, Sun Yat-sen made his Viceroy's announcement foresha
was kidnapped by Chinese something like £100,000 for his prepared to depart from being serious.
A "Daily Bulletin" message
Chinese Legation. He arrived in way back to the Far East and by dowing the appointment, possibly from Peking stated that Dr. Sun London on October 1, 1896. On the aid of disguises carried on his a year hence, of an authoritative Yat-sen was taken from the the eleventh day of his sojourn he propaganda with success. When Committes to consider the currency Peking Hotel on a stretcher to the was walking near the Chinese the rebellion of 1911 was accom- question. Peking Union Medical College fellow-countryman. Presently two Provisional President of the new carried by 52 votes to 38--- majority Legation when he was met by a plished Sun Yat-sen was elected On a division the motion was Hospital. He was looking very ill. He had been trying to evade an men came out of the large house Republic, but after a short time of 14, .. operation, but it was then regard-know to be the Legation, and After the death of Yuan Shih-kai near, which Sun Yat-sen did not retired in favour of Yuna Shih-kai. ed as inevitable. It was not expected he would live.
invited him to enter, and before a succession of factional disputes,
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the
FAR EAST POLITICS.
EFFECT OF JAPAN'S NEW TREATY..
(Courtesy of Daily Bulletin)."
Tokio, January 27.
A later cable to the "Daily through the doorway. Thence he took place, and the parlia- solved in the summer of 1922 and Japan does not intend in future to he could reply they pushed him including Monarchist attempts, China. This Parliament was dis- It is à clear. Indication that Bulletin" said that an exploratory was hustled to the top of the mentarian camps aplit into North Sun Yat-sen fled to Shanghai. concentrate on Fur Easter affairs, operation disclosed cancer of the liver, which was so advanced that house, and he was told that he and South. The Northern Govern- Returning to Canton he again in the view on the Bumo-Japanese
The newspaper declares that the
it was decided that it would be Luckily the wife of one of the Powers; but the Southern Parlia- then came into conflict with the
would be deported to China,ment was that recognised by the secured control of the city, but Agreement of the Nichi-Nichi.
fatal shortly."
"Father of the Republie.".
useless to operate. It was expect- English servants at the Legation ment claimed to be, the direct Powers. He demanded that a pro- present will be an opportunity for ed that the disease would "prove became aware of what had hap- successor of the Provisional Con- portion of the Customs duties Russia and Japan to test out the pened, and she, knowing that Dr.stitution of 1911 and of the levied in the Southern centres lesson learned from the Russo- Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whose death a note to inform him that Sun wassen's energies were devoted to Government in Canton and not to two Powers must co-operate fur Cantile was Sun's friend, sent him righrat Parliament, and Sun Yat should be paid to the de facto Japanese war, amely that the is semi-officially reported from in custody, and if not immediately leading the Southern or Cantonese the de jure Government of Peking.
the furtherance of their mutual Peking, has been for many liberated would be sent back to cause against Peking. In the These requests were naturally interests in the Far East. It nakable men in modern China. be decapitated. Dr. Cantile failed Parliament in Canton and was by the authorities in control of the Far East, owing to the Russo- ern China China, and there would certainly spring of 1921 he set up the refused by the foreign Powers and foresees tho intensification of joint When the great Chinese rebellion to get any assistance from Scot declared President in Southern Gustoms.
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