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EXPLOIT RECALLED.
HOW YUAN WAS OUTWITTED.
AN ANNIVERSARY.
FAN YUAN-LIEN.
MINISTER OF EDUCATION DEAD.
INTEREST IN LIBRARIES.
Peking, Dec. 24.
Mr. Fan Yuan-llen, Chairman of Sino-American educational
Writing in the "Observer". Mr.
Peking, Dec. 24. To-morrow is not only a western Ernest Price Bell, for many year. Festival but a Chinese National the
correspondent of the "Chicago Dally Nows," says: We Holiday, for since 1916 December foundation fund association, and live in stirring times. "Big Bill" 25 has been marked as the an- many times Minister of Education has taken the field. It is a revolu-niversary of the restoration of the in the Peking Government, passed tion. It is not a little revolution Chinese Republic.
away at his Tientsin residence, on such as that of George Washing
It was on the Christmas Day of Friday morning. He is survived ton's days. It is a big, revolution. 1915 that General Tsai Ao fired the by his mother, who is critically "Elg Bill" would not be interested first gun in his campaign against ill, and his wife and two children. in a little revolution. He has a
Yuan Shih-kal, which eventually Mr. Fan was born fifty two nice sense of perspective in matters culminated in the death of Yuan years ago in the district of Halang of this kind,
and the overthrow of the Hung Hslang, Huaan. After graduating Hunan Shi Hu School George Washington was thinking Halen monarchy. Tsai was a little from the about only the English yoke. "Big over thirty years old when he be- he went to Japan and attended the Bill's" Intellectual range is much came tunchun of Yunnan, his Tokyo Highor Normal College.
Despite native province.
his While in Japan he was "activo in more spacious. He is a deep man. Ho is a radical man. If a thing youthfulness Yuan Shih-kai was Chinese student circles and was the has roote, "Big BB" will find them. afraid of him more than anybody first to urge the Japanese authorl- To an ordinary man a big thing else, not excepting the late Dr. ties to establish special law courses
Sun Yat-Ben who found himself for Chinese students. may look small. "Big Bill” is sub- ject to no such illusions. He often again a political refugee in Japan Upon his return to China he thinks at night. And when "Big after the failure of the so-called joined the Board of Education in second and third revolutions in the which his ability quickly won him Bill" thinks at night, anything marvellous may happen.
southern provinces. . 1.
recognition from his superiors. He When Yuan decided to make taught for some time in the now They are talking about a plane- tarium for Chicago. Do you know himself emperor in the summer of defunct Frontier Development Col- what a planetarium is? You do 1915 his first thought was how to lege and later formed the Shang not understand it. "Elg Bill" will overcome the opposition of General The Association with returned atu- understand it, right enough. Tani. He transferred him from dents from other foreign countries, Trust him to penetrate its disguise, Yunnan to Peking for service. Tsai Mr. Fan was appointed Minister A planetarium is nothing less than accepted the call and was received of Education in the first Republi-
camouflaged
In Peking by Yuan with orrery. It is English.. The machine was invent-mark of courtesy. He was given a ed by a Scotsman and named in very comfortable position, draw
ing $1,000 a month.
Taai soon learned that would crown himself emperor.
nt staunch republican
4
honour of the fourth Orrery.
Earl of
And some people are talking of
every
can Cabinet formed by Mr. Lou Taeng-kelang after the overthrow
of the Manchus in 1911. He re
tained his post when Mr. Choo Yuan Pin-chun succeeded Mr. Lou as Premier. Не resigned shortly afterwards, but again joined the
A
heart he
putting auch 2 thing in Grant steadily refused to be drawn into Government as Minister of Educa
Yuan
Park.
Did "Big Bill" start his revolu-support of Yuan's scheme.
tried every means to win him over: tion any too soon?
The Menace of Yorkshire Pudding but' in vain. Then he decided to of this post was again (very short,]Į
are
and
tion in 1914 when Marsha! Tuan Chi-jui was Premier, is tenure This is an age of hidden perils. spy upon him so that he could not for when Yuan Shib-kai wanted to
raise the America, particularly, is beset with leave the capital and
make himself Emperor he resigned standard of revolt against him. dangers. We are big. We are
and went to Shanghai to join the Yuan is generally regarded as a Chung Hua Book Company as chief rich-some of us. We are a shin-
very shrewd man but in Tsal he editor. He also worked with Mr. ing mark. There plottings
met his match. against us everywhere. Russia still appears to have
Llang Chichio for the overthrow has her eyes
on Alaska and the In order to elude the vigilance of of Yuan. He represented General Pacific coast. Japan is crouching Yuan's countless detectives to hop upon us in Guam and the throw them off their guard, Tsai Tsai Ao in Shanghai, while the latter was carrying on his anti- decided to plunge himself into a Yuan campaign in Yunnan and Philippines. But these menaces dissipated life. He frequented the comparatively, are trifling. Go to
Tzechuan, Chienmen quarter every night and "Big Bill" if you want to know | what the real danger is.
became intimate with one sing With the restoration of the Re- went to "Big Bill" will tell you that song girl, Hsiao Ah-feng, who later public Mr. Fan again
Peking to serve as Minister of many American citizens, thanks to played a no small part in the escape Education in the Government. Inj the "denationalising influences of Teal pretended to quarrel with 1920 he went to Europe and International Intercourse, are con- his wife every day, and when this America at the head of an Educa tracting a taste for Yorkshire pud-reached the ears of Yuan he felt tional Mission to study conditions ding. What safety can there be that he had misjudged Tsai and in the West. After his return he for the stars and stripes in an atmosphere of Yorkshire pudding? dragon throne without
that he could proceed to sit on the was appointed Chancellor of the fear of Normal University for men. He served in this position for some opposition from him.
Accounts vary
as to how Tsai two years during which he intro- succeeded in leaving Peking. Some duced many reforms.
He was 80 say that he was disguised as a popular with the student body that coolie while others state that he when he resigned on account of went with the sing-song girl. But financial difficultles Americanism there probably is there is no doubt about the fact sent one delegation after another nothing more subtly lethal than that the relaxation of the guard to Tientsin to persuade him to `re- bacon and eggs.
And there are English walnuts of his fight. As soon as he reach-
over him contributed to the success turn to his duties.
All British aristocrats eat it. King George III, and Lord North ate it. Likewise with bacon and eggs. Eaten in England for centuries, they are the English national break- fast to-day. To · 100 per cent.
of Tsai from Peking..
the students
When Mr. Sun Pao-chi formed
was
in circulation in Chicago. You ed Tientsin he boarded a Japanese his Cabinet in 1924 he was offered may not know about them but "Big steamer for Japan and from there the portfolio of Education, but he Bill" knows about them. Nothing he proceeded to Yunnan via Hong declined the honour. In that year so insidious as English walnuts Kong. He reached Yunnanfu, the the Sino-American Education ever escapes "Big Bill." He un-provincial capital, a few days be- Foundation Fund Association derstands them. He knows they fore Christmas and on December founded to administer the remitted are full of British propaganda. He 26 he declared the independence of American share of the Boxer In- knows that to crack English wal-Yunnan.
demnity, and he was unanimously nuts is to crack the American Con. In Pei Hai there is a library de- elected Chairman of the Associa stitution, and "Big Bill" rather dicated to the memory of General tion. would be cracked himself.
Tsai Ao who died In Japan about Cheese and Propaganda. 8 years ago. There will be a These are a few of the concrete memorial service for him to Britishisms
morrow."Kuo Wen." which
engage the vigilance of Chicago's mayor. There is also tea. From the point of view of refined and imponderable
Britisk propagandiam, ten is perpecepted a German tender for 80 haps supreme. It has ruined a number of ambassadors and doubt-locomotives in the face of
competition. less scores of diplomatic subalterns. Associate English tea with English cake and 100 per cent. American- ism goes to the wall. "Big Bill" knows this. It will be part of his one hand fastened in the British larger strategy to harden the lion's mane, with the other he must American conscience against tea. keep Lake Michigan unlocked and
Cheddar cheese is something else restrain the Mississippi,
C
Mr. Fan took great interest in the library movement and WES responsible for the decision of the Association to bulld A tuillion dollar library in Peihai. He was also one of the directors of Nankai University.
The news of his passing came as
+
a great shock to his many friends The South-African railways have
severe In Tientsin and Peking. He had been suffering from the bloody piles for A number of years, but nobody suspected that the end would come so soon. He was in called away. to the port by the Peking only a week ago and was
W46 news that his aged mother seriously, ill.
Both of his children are still been with; it is English. And the very young, the son being only six while; Habeas Corpus, and the English years old. As soon as the news of There common law-what is he going to his death became known Dr. Chang are perfectly astounding pro- do with these? What is he going o-ling, President of Nankai Uni- perties in Cheddar cheese. No to do with Chaucer, Shakespeare, versity and Mr. Liang Chi-chao one who eats a bit of it is ever the and Milton? He must do some hurried to his home and expressed. condolences to the bereaved family. same person again. It contains an thing. One hundred per cent.
a member of the Incredible propagandist potency. Americanism cannot stand sturdily Mr. Fan wan Feed a few slices of it to a man and upon such legal and cultural hases Progresssive party of which Mr. Liang is the recognised leader - he will burn Washington if he gets as these. :
"Kuo Wen."
to look out for. You can buy it in He has the Magna Charta to deal Chicago: "Big Bill" hoe mayor only # little give him
chance.
a chance or, at the very least, One's heart goes out to "Big Join the English-Speaking Union. BIL" MEAN
Nor is "Big Bill's" big revolution This "Big Bl" revolution we concerned only with the perils of must have. We must have it all. dietetic propaganda. He has eyes It embosoma virtues, beauties,
JAPANESE PLANS.
PRECAUTIONS AT TSINGTAO AND TSINANFU.
right round his head, He has noted original excellencles, marvels, of the English tooth-brushes which which as yet we do not dream. are creeping into our drug stores. "Big Bill" has given us the barest He has spotted some of the dentists glimpse of what he is. We have in who recommend these supposedly this country no literary genius, no Innocuous Instruments. If you Alexanders Pape, for instance, Tokyo, Dec. 25. want to be patriotically healthy, capable of comprehending, let alone It is intimated that the Govern "Big Bill" will tell you, be careful describing him. We simply must ment will rely on Martha detach- about what goes into your mouth. wait for him to unfoldments to safeguard the lives and See to it that neither George III, With "Big Bill" expanding and property of Japanese at Tsingtao nor George V assails your nation- towering in the limelight, how and neighbourhood, if they are allatie birthright in this vulnerable could Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler menaced, but does not intend to quarter.
have doubted that this epoch has at send Army contingents unless it least one superlative man? Dr. is absolutely necessary, as there What About Shakespeare?
Butler's remark merely lustraten is a fear that premature despatch Whan one thinks of the vest and afresh the extreme circumscription will cause misunderstandings, Intricate tasks which confront "Big of the New York mental horizon. If, however, Teinanfu / 'fa sñdan- | Bill": in making" America safe for Truly, it is long way from gered, three Infantry · Companies Americans, Tone's heart goes out Chicago to the other side of the will be sent from Tientsin, and the to him. He must manage things Adirondacks. But so big and things so little, things in the end, can lear foreign and things domestle With' to obscure Big B
untains, Government is prepared to despatch high enough troops from Japan in the events
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