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No. 6.
226
Peking, January 5, 1916.
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On the 22nd. of December, I received a telegram from His Majesty's Consul-General at Yunnan Pu stating that Tsai Ao, ti Li Ligh-chan and one or two other notable mal contents had arrived in Yunnan and were reported to be engaged in stirring up a rebell- -ien, Confirmation of the report appeared in the local newspapers on the following day and caused considerable disquietude in official circles where Tsai do was thought to be on a health trip to Japan. Tsai do is an interesting personality who has been living quietly for the last year or two in Peking engaged in the study of lad problems and other questions which were delegated to him by the President with a view to distracting his attention from other and more serious objects. He is a native of Hunan, thirty-five years of age, who acquired his military training in Japan and became Military Governor of Yunnan during the revolution of 1911. He slipped away from Peking towards the end of November, atayed at Nagasaki for a week and started on his adventurous journey to Tunnan about the middle of December. His fellow conspirator, Li Lish-chun, was the notorious Governor of Kiengsi before the second Revolution and has since found it necessary to live abroad, princi- -pally, I believe, in Japan. These are the two men whose sudden
appearance in Yuanen towards the end of last month caused such a
smsation throughout the country and confronted Yuan Shih-kai with
the solution of a serious problem before he could hope to reap the
fruits of all his Monarchical schemes. On their arrival at the
provincial capital they lost no time in gaining the adhesion of the Military Governor of the province, who, as a former subordinate of Tsai Ao, was probably privy to the latter's designs, and the revolution then followed the stereotyped course of all similar
movements of the kind in recent years. The British and French