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YEUNG KU WAN.
REFORM PARTY.
June, 1899. Whilst Yeung Ka Wan was in Japan, the writer wrote and advised
RECREATION HUTS.
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During the past few years British ship- agents to Hunan Province and the other Yangtze River provinces, the United!
tion in the direction of Canada, and. fux THE TEAN TAI.]
States, the Straits Settlements, etc., for [FROM A CORRESPONDENT TO THE TIMES." builders have been turning their atten indeed, there are some authorities on the recruiting and organizing purposes, and
Recreation huts at the front are
east side of the Atlantic who are firmly order to obtain tite co-operation To-day, the 10th January, being the in
of the anti-Manchu necessity of trench warfares. They are of opinion that it will not be long before and support
Messrs. Vickors were the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Societies The writer's advice was im military necessity; but they are the some of our best ships are built in the Young Ki Wan, in Hongkong, it is high mediately acted upon, and the machinery achievement of philanthropy-un achieve Dominion. time that the name of this noble patriot for organizing a general and widespread ment in the face of immens difficulties. Arst to make a move, and quite recently also followed, the and reformer should be rescued from movement for reform and the overthrow. They are invaluable to many ations of their fins yard as Montreal was enlarged, of the Manchu Ching" Government the Army in the Field-to the countless fessre. Yarrow and Sir W. G. Arm- oblivion. to adorn its proper page in was ant in motion. Secret agents, and I soldiers who share danger and discom-strong-Whitworth
manifestoez and "circular fort but do not fight, to soldiers going former being established near Vancouver, the history of the great Chiness Revolu-Reform
letters"
were despatched to these places into action, and to those back from the while the latter has a modern steel-pro- tion, culminating in the establishment under the seal of the Chung Kwoit ordeals of the trenches. Perhaps the ducing plant in operation on the south treal. It is now stated that a combine Hop Ching Ching For Sher Whnithe service rendered to men coming out of shore of the St. Lawrence, opposite Mon- ot these firms is under consideration with of the Republic of China.
Republican Party of Ching-in August, the treaches is the most important.
After a spell in the frenches our men
A View to the development of shipbuild- 1890.
On the 24th January, 1900, Yeung Kuate moved back to get some rest,
From ng on the Pacific Coast. At present the Wan arrived in Hongkong from Japan great deal depends on this rest. by the ss. Kamakurs Mura to confer the military point of view alom it is industry there is confined to the construc- engines, and the possibilities are said to be immense, especially as it is believed with the writer, and he informed the just as vital to revive the spirits of ion of wooden vessels, with auxiliary writer that he had decided to resign soldiers as to renew munitions. the Presidency of the Reform Party in Commands look, of course, and look that many contracts could be secured in favour of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, so as to carefully, to food, clothing, cleanliness, the United States, where much more in prevent rivalry and further unpleasant and health. But the conditions of exist terrat is now being taken in ship-owning.
A men are growing old and times are changing rapidly, it would be a great and unpardonable injustice to the dead to delay the publication of their deeds any longer, and this is the writer's réneon for making reference to these derds to-day. Moreover, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Kang Yu Wei, and the writer are the only three men alive today who know the truth about the early history of the Reform movement in China, and, in the interests of historical accuracy, it is the writer's duty to disclose the following facts.
ness.
On the 3rd April, 1000, thu: writer in teodaced Yeung Ku Wan to Dr. Yung Wing, LL.D., at Thomas' Hotel with a to union and co-operation in the great work of reform, and a letter was also went to Dr. Sun Yat Sen in Japan, advising him to meet and make the acquaintances of Dr. Yung Wing when he arrived in Japan on his way back to the United States.
It was in 1890 that Yeung Ku Wan
Dr. Yung Wing left Hongkong by the and the writer met together in Hong.. Empress of China on the 4th April, kong, and, as suggested by the writer, 1900, after having assured the writer of his. co-operation and support. Yeung established the "Foo Yan Man Sher Ku Wan left for Japan by the s. dwa Kwong Fook Whui" the Chinese are on the 25th April, 1900, when it Patriotic Reform Association for the us suggested by the writer that Dr. Yung Wing should be elected as Presid- Reformation of China, with Headquarent of the United Reform Parties.
Young Ku Wan and Dr. Sun Yat Sen on 17th June, 1900.
The
ence in the abomination of the field of war, desolate, for miles behind the line, strain the cheerfulem of citizen soldiers, For all that they are wonderful. Officers do their best to keep them in good heart, but they lack the innans for lifting the minds of the lads above the miry "clay. It is up to the British public to sne Recreation huts supply the means. that means are in eased for reinvigo- men before rating the spirite of our they leave their rest to face again tho hell of the trenches. Folk at home should soc the men as shy some out of the trenches. Photographs and cinemas lend people to think that Tommy or Jock is always smiling. They must get rid of that idea I have seen many, very many, trudging back from the line dated and done. They look like men who will nover' amilo again. They look is the story of their oyes. It is uncanny. It is pitoous. Their lips tell another ir Stick story. Grimly set, they express a pur pose live in Death, as it were. it," they say.
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and,, being the senior of the sixteen members, Yeung Ku Wan was elected President of this Association.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen did not land, and a meeting of the lenders-Yeung Ku Wan, In the spring of 1895, Yeung Ku Wan Sun Yat Ben, Tee Tenn Tai, Chan Kwai
Men sent back for rest expect nothing, and the writer conferred together Shick(4) was held in a Chinese sampan alongside the s.8. Indus to discuss the Sun and joined hands with Dr.
to nothing. They are soldiers enduring Yat Sen Wong Wing Seong, and coming revolution, and the conference hope for nothing. Usually they get next others. They eetablished the Hing lasted over one hour,
Immediately after the arrival of the hardncas. Field ranteens are necessarily Chinese Reform Chung Whaithe Association at No. 1, Staunton Street... Indus a trap was laid by Viceroy small, and little better than midnight where all subsequent meetings were held. Hung Chang and his myrmidons to chestnut stalls at a slum corner. They Yeung Ku Wan was elected President kidnap Yeung Ku Wan, but the attempt de little to raise drooping spirits in the was foiled, and the Chinese gunboat cold, wet, mud and darkness of winter, The effect is magical. on the 11th October, 1805; and after the fan returned to Canton with the Ercot a hut.
Shelter, warmth, light, refreshment, and failure of the attempt to capture Canton
discomfited plotters. and establish a Provisional Govern-
On the 1st July, 1000, Yeung Ku Wau above all amusement, act like a talis It is the relief of pain. Strained ment on the 28th October 1885, he and the writer met and conferred with man escaped and proceeded to the Straits M. Fukumo, Macamoto Nuo. Y nerves pass from the abnormal to the Settlements, India, and South Africa, Oski, Captain S. Hara, M. Itoh, H. normal, and in a few days, with few ex where he established untas of the "Hing Iwasaki, and Hiriyams at the Hongkong ceptions, the boys are laughing again. Chung Whui "-China Reform Associa Hotel. These were all Japanese friends That is the most telling part of the tion,
and sympathisers, who had chivalrously work of recreation huts, Dr. Sun Yat Sen escaped to Macao, promised their staunch support,
THE ROMANCE. OF THE HUTS, M. Fukumoto and his friends left for whence he proceeded to Honolulu, vti
Huts at the front are very different Japan, and, in October, 1896, he was Saigon by the as. Las on the 2nd July, from those at home or at the bases. The kidnapped in London.
1900, in order to meet Dr. Sun Yat Sen.
latter hope to keep men from going to The election of Yeung Ku Wan ae
Dr. Sun Yat Sen and his Japanese the devil. At the front there is not even President was the cause of considerable friends arrived in Hongkong by the s..
There is friction between him and Dr. Suo Yatud Mars on the 17th July, 1900, but the attraction of the devil.
Sen in after years.
of the leaders in 1895, and they were two of the earliest and staunchest sup porters of the Reform movement,
Dr. G. E. Morrison, Dr. Timothy Ricard, and Mr. D. Warres Smith and
also Wer
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They -
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MANILA RAILROADS. Governor-General Harrison urges quick. action in connection with the purchase of A cable has been Manila Railroads. received in Washington urging the Sec- retary of War, Mr. Baker, to bring to an end as soon as possible the negotia tions for the completion of the purchase by the Philippine Government of the capital stack of the Manila Railroad Company.
head and chased across the sky, battery. after battery taking up in turn the noisy pursuit. Tommy goes on reading.
But the true romance is the soldier himself. Enter a crowded hut and think for yourself that each man in it, not many hours before, has been elbowing death, dodging death, defying death, and you will shiver at the pull of the fell The soldier magnet that has made men fight to the death through the ages. thinks nothing of all this. Nor is there is a piano an octave of which was knock- any poss in him. In the hut he wants to ed out by the musical Hans. That piano farget it all; be does forgot it all. He is still used. This is a small hut run rests. Without the hut he might res by soldiers at a point of danger. It is. The first was shelled to his body somehow, but there would be up the second.
can only be found anderground, a large. blessed respite, no forgetting. In the pieces. At another place, where safety hut he furgels everything, in his games or in a magazine atury. If only our vault has been fitted out as a recreation young folk at homo vere to realize what room. In the crypt, brightly lit and a boon auch games are to their heroes well ventilated by electricity, as many every playbox would soon be emptied. as three hundred men can be refreshed If people were only to se soldiers hunt and amused There is a email billiard ing round for some magazine, or illustable sharing with a cineroa the distinc- There might to the trenches. Farther back, between trated paper, or email novel, help would tion of being the nearest of their rank
be taken to the trenches. They over- then be enough to go round the crowded two ruined towns, troops are waiting to crowd a hut. The assistants work like conjurers to cope with the press. It is. Sunday. The men have already been at parade service in another but some miles
JAPANESE ENGINES FOR FRENCH
INDO CHINA,. The solid progress Japan has made in all branches of engineering in reeent years is evidenced in all departments of industrial activity, and has been some- what overlooked in the great cataclysm The latest evidence of this progress is the execution of an order for railway loconio The late Sir Kai Ho Kai, K., C.M.G., he was forbidden to land by the Hong-only the hat. Take & higher note. The that has engulfed the western nations,
kong Government and proceeded to hut at the front is touched by romance associated liinself with Yeung Ku Wan, Japan after conferring with Yeung Kuto romance of real war. The loud roar
of the guns surges within hearing. Some tives by the South Manchurian Railway the writer, and the other leaders of the Wan and the other leaders.
Manchuria The order was placed by Reform movement early in March, 1805. On the 5th Oct., 1900; the flag of revolt times it is within reach of enemy shells. at its workshops at Shahokou, in South He was often invited to attend the against Manche domination and misrule However carefully sites may be fixed by secret meetings of the leaders, and he was raised in the Wei Chow district of the military, the unexpected will happen, the railway administration of French always gave them the benefit of his advice Kwangtung province, but the rebellion Several huts have been shelled, destroy. Indo-China, and the finished product was and counsel, besides strongly advocating collapsed owing to a shortage of ammuni-ed, or damaged, happily without ess-recently shipped from. Dairen, after the ualties. Incidents of war are, as often engines had been subjected to trial runs. the Great Cause in The China Moi; and tion. he also helped to draft the Official Pro-
After the failure of the Wei Chow as not, part of the day's routine. Thril- This is the first order the company has clamation in 1895. He was one of the rebellion, Yeung Ku Wan opened aning combats in the air will not draw received from abroad-The Far East. Reform Party's staunchest supporters. English School at No. 52, Gage Street, men away from their game of draughts. Mr. Thomas H, Reid (Editor for the support of his wife and children. Enemy Aviatiks may be peppered over- China Mail), and Mr. Chesney Duncan When warned by the writer and his (Editor of Hongkong Telegraph) were friends he replied: also invited to attend the sceret meetings, *I do not fear death. Rather than spend a single cent of the Reform Party's funds, have decided to sup port my wife and children by teaching, It is my duty to set a good example. It was this utter disregard of death Mr. Alfred Cunningham (Editors of and the high-souled principles of the Hongkong Daily Press)
man which opened the way to the assas staunch supporters of the Reform move sins of the Manchu Ching" Govern ment, and were long associated with the ment, who succeeded in accomplishing writer in advocating the Great Cause their foul work by shooting him in his Besides advocating the Great Cause, Mr. class-room on the 10th January, 1901. Alfred Cunningham was prominently It was some years after the assasina connected with the 1801-1003 attempt tion of Yeung Ku Wan that Dr. San by the writer and his friends to surprise Yat Sen aud his friends established the and capture Canton on the night of the Tung Meng Whui Association. 28th January, 1903, and set up a Pro- The writer did not join this newly with the late Dr. Yung Wing, LL.D., as formed Association, or any other puli President, as proposed by the writer, tical party, but continued to write and Dr. Yung Wing was one of the advocate reform in the South China ataunchest supporters of the Beforu. Morning Post and other newspapers (1905 Movement. He worked hard for the 1912), and to work for the union and co Great Cause in the United States, and operation of the different reform parties be prompt and regular. was long and intimately associated with till the outbreak of the Revolution in
1011, and the recognition of the Republic tables. the writer,
Mr. Cunningham lithograpbed the of China by the Foreign Powers in 1912, Official Proclamation with his own hands when he retired from the political arene. Yeung Ku Wan has been buried in the in order to preserve netreey; and, after the failure of this second attempt to Protestant Cemetery of Hongkong, and capture Caulon City, he and the writer up to now his numerous friends and com- promoted the south China Morning patriots have not been able to decide fost in 1903 with the object of support what epitaph to cut on the monument ing the Reform Movement in China, and which has been erected over his grave.
Will the 400,000,000 millions of China much valuable work was accomplished; through its columns during the years continue to allow Yeung Ku Wan's
mains to lie unknown and forgotten in In October, 1897, Yeung Ku Wan was Hongkong, or shall they be removed with advised by the writer, who had pre-befitting pomp and ceremony and rev viously met and conferred with Kangerently interred in the soil of China, for Ya Wei and his late brother, Kang whose millions he so strenuously laboured Kwong Yin, in Hongkong, in February and gave up his life? and October, 1890, to join hands with Having briefly outlined Young Ku Kang Yu Wei and his brother and Liang Wan's career, it is hoped that the Pro hi Chao is the great work of reform vincial Authorities of Canton, the He and, on his return from South Africa publican Government of China, and his and the Straits Settlements, he was met friends and sympathisers in all parts be the writer on board the as, lakosa of the world will take proper steps for Maru in Hongkong Harbour on the 11th commemorating the anniversary of his Marck, 1896. Yeung Ku Wan did not land, death and martyrdom. and, after conferring with the writer. Note The Hongkong Daily Press was proceeded direct to Japan to confer with Dr. Sun Yat Sen
visiones Government in South China
1903-1907.
Through the urgent written request of Kang Yu Wei's brother, the late Kang. Kwong Yin, who was continuously in correspondency with the writer, the writer arranged a meeting for the pur- pose of uniting the two parties, and Young Ku. Wan and Liang Chi Chao met for the first time in the office of Kingsell & Co., Yokohama, Japro, in
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TYPICAL SCENES.
Let readers picture to themselves
A group comes in, re few hat scenes. leased only the night before from the trenches, encased in hard mud from A soldier at the piano starts playing helmet to heel, mad to despair of. They hymn tunes unsolicited, a group forms are before the opening hour. They sit of its own accord around him singing on forms patiently staring at nothing, matches, and an accompanying hum talking not at all, just waiting for the comes from men at the tables. In an hour elixir of tea boiling in so ura. To or two they will be facing the enemy. question if they would like to walk, just Many are writing on "Church Army* as they were, down their village street, paper. Some of these lettera will be the the reply was "No, it would only make Inst-the very last.
friends more unhappy." Again,
This imperfect sketch of the great work another sone. The rain is pouring. The being done by recreation hits is the out- wind is cold. The night is falling. From
come of a visit which I have been the void a miserable void men troop into a warm hut. Its lighting might not privileged to make among too Church: content Woolwich, but it is a blaze to Army buts scattered all over the Western men who may be living, in holes like Front. I have been north and south- rabbit warrens They swarm round the from the Yser to the Somme. The chief counter, four or perhana six deep. The purpose of the huts is to enliven and ea- hat superintendent, with his soldier assist courage our soldiers with some comfort ant (a man uxfit except far such work), and recreation in the midst of the waste are handed over to the military for the darts about, serving. The men wait their and weariness of war. Any profits made one of the strongest supporters of turn with great good humour and take
what they get to the tables. Recreation benefit of the soldiers As is befitting their association with the National the movement for reform and pio-
full is in full swing,
noise, and gress in China. It helped greatly
full smoke. soldier is at the Church the huts are open to all, and in bringing about the trial and
piano, He will be followed by others, facilities are giren for religions services to all denominations. It is a national! The punishment of the murderers of
formed of division
might be Yeung Ku Wan, the first Presid ent of the Reform Party (1895), men able to play, and to play well. The work, a national responsibility.
front where our greatest military effort and was the first to raise & piano is as necessary as the bat itself need of the huts for the winter at the public fund for the support of and pianos are scarce and costly, At is being made is especially urgent and
dhat, holed by shrapnel and leaky, there unlimited. It is pressing The organi Yeung Ku Wan's wife
zation is trying hard to meet this need. children.
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