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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1929.

THORN IN THE KUOMINTANG'S FLESH.

FRAIL AND DAINTY MADAME SUN YAT SEN.

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MEMBER OF GOVERNING POLITICAL PARTY,

NOT LOVED BY LEADERS OF GOVERNMENT.

RANDALL GOULD,

United Press Staff Correspondsät.}

Shangbai, August -A closely

watched and seldom entered house

"Dr. Sun Was Poor." Presently down the stairs comes in Shanghai's "Frenchtown" forms Madame Sun, small and delicate in the focus of one of the most drama-appearance, a far remove indeed tic political situation in the world from the firebrand one might have to-day.

pictured. One cannot think, in look- From the seclusion maintained bying at her, of the burning denunein- the owner of this house, no casualtions ehe 'has penned. It is easier observer would dream that she is to remember her hospital work, and Sister-in-law of the President of the sympathy for China's peasantry the Government's State Coun-which moved her to write of her Sister of the Finance Minister. late husband:- Sister of the Minister of Industry.

Commerce and Labour. Step-mother of the Minister of

Railways. Herself a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Governing Politicni Party, and widow of China's great idealist lender, Sur Yas Sen.

cil. ".

Her Own Family.

All these things are true, and it is true likewise that the frail and dainty Madame Sen Yat Sen is rapidly becoming one of the sharpest thorns in the flesh of that National Government so largely made up of

It

Dr. Sun was poor. Not until he was fifteen years old did he have shoes for his feet, and he lived in

hilly region where it is not easy a barefoot boy. His family, until he and his brother were grown, lived almost from hand to mouth in a hut. Many times. Dr. Sun told me that it was in those carly days as a poor son of a poor peasant family that he became a revolutionary.

"He was determined that the lot of the Chinese peasant should not continue to be so wretched, that little boys in China should have shoes to wear and rice to eat."

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embers of her own Scong family. "After the downfall of the former Wuhan Government two years ago, forth time after time in conversa- That is the note which comes Madame Sun left the country: when tion with Madame Sun. She speaks she returned for the transfer of Dr. English as naturally as Chinese, for Sun's body from near Peping to the she was American educated. The Purple Mountain mausoleum Nanking, she did so with an exiless sprung from the days when the barefoot boy" reference doubt. plicit statement of independence; studied American poetry, and her and since that time she has made imagination would be of the aort to amply clear that she considers the recognise with a pang the contrast prosent leaders of the Government between the starved barefoot boy and Kuomintang Party traitors to the cause of Chinese revolutionary boy of Whittier's American child- of China and the happy barefoot

hood.

progress.

No whisper of all this has appear- ed in most of the vernacuing and

Secluded By Necessity. foreign newspapers of China, while Madame Sun is simple in appear- much was made of the fact thatance and in speech. She dresses her Madame Sun did actually return to China and take part in the elaborate ceremoniala of last spring. Yet such things have a way or coming out, and knowledge of Madame Sun's position is becoming more widely known each day: .

Important Deviation.

black hair plainly, wears a Chinese robe of some dark material-len the blue of the Chinese peasant- and she speaks as she so obviously feels, directly and from the heart,

Secluded by necessity, Madame Sun nevertheless maintains contact with the world and particularly with events in China. She tells, laugh- Briefly summed up, this positioningly, how watchers outside her. is that the summer of 1927 saw an important deviation from the true aims of Dr. Sun, and that this deviation has never been corrected while in certain ways it has been aggravated.

The original departure from Dr. Sun's purposes whs with relation to the welfare of the commion people, Dr. Sun had been determined that the lot of the peasant should not bo so wretched as that which he himself bad experienced during his boyhood: toward this he gave 40 years of his life; yet, in the words of a declaration made publie by Madame Sun in July of 1927, "to-day the lot of the Chinese pea- kant is even more wretched than in those days when Dr. Sun was driven by his great sense of human wrongs into a life of revolution."

Most recent of the errors into which present leaders have fallen, in Madame Sun's view, is what she deems a direct effort to provoke war with Soviet Russia,

Uacomplimentary Epithets.

house decided that one of her "ecn- tacts" was with Moscow, by a pri- vate, radio; until their further in- vestigation disclosed that they had been misled by the sound of her typewriter tapping away upstairs. Chinese friends who have called found themselves the object, kubace quently, of various unwelcome at- tentions and surveillances.

It is not a pleasant way to live, Madame Sun admits. She has no desire to shut herself away, to re- ceive a constant stream of callers urging her on behalf of her family to join with the Government and abandon the attitude which she has held to through the years.

"Bat I must act by my con- matters but the feeling that I am science," says she. Nothing else doing right, I cannot abandon or distort the ideals of my husband."

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The great bont leaped into the air! wing tip to wing tip.. and few.

Dox, whose ability to rise from the water has been doubted by some of the most important English air, plane designers, suddenly put on an extra turn of speed, and after a run of only about 600 yards, rose easily into the air to a height of about thirty feet.

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Such views are not commonly ex- pressed in China to-day, particular- ly when embellished with such un- complimentary epithets at figured in Madame Sun's anti-war statement of August in which she directly charged that Nanking is reactionary, that the Kuomintang lenders are "treacherous and "counter-TC-

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and

The production of power, alcohol As a byproduct of the Queensland sugar industry is being developed rapidly.

the Nationalist revolution," that the Chinese maases are being the product. subjected to "terrorism."

Callers at Madame Sun's home realize as soon as they have preased the doorbell that they are not visit ing a social favourite. There is no swinging wide of the portals and greeting by a reaplendant doorman. Instead, a pleasant but tactiturn Chinese boy opens a small section of a nearby window, receives the card, closes the opening and dis- | appears.

sugar industry conferred some four Leading representatives of the Year ago with the agents of the Distillers' Company Australian Na tional Power Alcohol company, capital of almost £5,000,000, which was floated with a nominal

British Support.

It was controlled by the Austra lian board and supported by the If one is known or has an ap- the British distilling interests,

financial and technical resources of pointment, however, that in the last reminder of the state Of They erected their first distillery things in the Sun menage. Present at Barina, near Mackay, which is ly the door opens and one in usher producing approximately 1,000,000 ed through a hall inte 'n cool re- Kallons of power alcohol yearly. ception room full of white-covered overstaffed furniture and displaying on its walls a variety of Chinese scrolla and pictures, all having to do with Dr. Sun.

One wall bears an enlarged photo graph of Dr. and Mrs. Sun to- gether, Dr. Sun standing by a chair in which his wife is seated. Above the fireplace there is a large bust photograph of Dr. Sun,

all-steel 100-passenger flying-boat, Dox, the great twelve-engined,

last month. She rose from the water three times while the little town of Friedrichshafen went wild with delight.

There are two engineers to con- trol the engine-room dials, and two She would have swept up further pilots, who take their instructions into the skies had Bot Captain, from the captain and navigator in

the pilots to throttle the engines The twelve engines respond an a at once, so that Dox dropped single unit as easily as the single gracefully back into the water. Pengine of a baby airplane,

500 Yards Take-off. `-

Storms of cheering rose from the

The remarkable part of this per banks of all the lake-side towns formance, which was carried out as the flying-boat swept pet.

three times, was that while travel- Housewives and burghers left their ling at less than sixty miles an homes and gazed in wonderment hour, the engines were able to raise across the water.

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the thirty-four tons of Dox into the DON'T LEAVE HONG KONG Dr. Dornier, the Dox's designer; air with the greatest case after a pressed a button and opened the take-off run of only 500 yards

It is apparent that the vessel is great gates of the shed behind capable of far greater things, and which for two and a half years. Dr. Dornier, who flew in the saloon Dox has been in the process of

As Dox'a frst passenger, has no building under a veil of the greatest doubts concerning her ability to fly!

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