Minister to the United States, Mexico, Cuba and
Peru, and Director-General of Customs; Pang
Shao Yi, who has been President of the Ministry
of Posts and Communications, Customs Tao-tai at
Tien-tsin, Vice-President of the Wai-wu Pu, Com-
missioner for the revision of the Tibetan Treaty,
Governor of Feng-tien and special Ambassador to
the United States; Chentung Liang-cheng, who has
been Minister to Germany, the United States,
Spain, Peru, Cuba and Mexico; Lew Yuk Lin,
who has been Minister to Great Britain, Consul-
General at Johannesburg and Singapore, and Dep-
uty Vice-President of the Wai-wu Pu; Wu Ting-
fang, educated at Oxford University, who was
twice Minister to the United States; General
Ts'en, son of the famous general of that name
who quelled the Mohammedan Revolution, who
was Viceroy of Sze-chwan in 1901-2, where he
showed special kindness to missionaries; General
Li Yuan Heng, commander of the revolutionary
army at Hankow; Wang Chong Wei and his two
brothers; C. T. Wang, and several others who
might be mentioned if space permitted. But we
must look more particularly to the two outstand-
ing Chinese of the Revolution period, Yuan Shih
Kai and Sun Yat Sen.

Yuan Shih Kai had long been one of the most
powerful officials of the Empire and he is un-
doubtedly the ablest living Chinese. Born in 1858

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