CHINESE REPUBLIC.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17117, 12 April 1921, Page 7

CHINESE REPUBLIC.

THE NEW PRESIDENT. (By Cahle—Press Association—-Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received April 11th, 10.35 p.m.) PEKING, April 9. -Doctor Sun Yat Sen has been elected President of China. [The name of Sun Yat. Sen came most prominently before the world m 1912, when the Manchu dynasty was overthrown in China after more than two and a half centuries of domination, and a Republic was established. Sun Yat Sen was one of the principal leaders of the revolution and an outstanding figure in tfae Young China movement. In January, 1912, a provisional Republican Government was declared in Nanking, under the Presidency of Sun Yat Sen. On February 12th the Manchu dynasty formally ended its 267 years' reign and, the . Chinese Republic wasestablished in its stead. On February loth, 1912, the . Nanking Assembly unanimously elected Yuan Shih-Kai Provisional President of the Republic, Sun Yat Sen retiring in JSs favour. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who is now 55 years of age, was educated in Honolulu at the Episcopal Mission School, and took" his medical degree at Hong-Kong, afterwards practising in Canton and Hawaii. He organised the Young China, Party, and was - imprisoned in 1 £96 in the Chinese Legation in London.) Dt. Sun "Xat Sen has been called she "Father of the Chinese Revolution."]