Dr. Sun Yat-sen Leader in "Weekly Review" Contest An interesting _investigatioa, conducted by the "Weekly Review of the Far East,'' to attempt to find out who are the 12 greatest living Chinese, has resulted as follows, the voting finishing yesterday Dr. Sun Yat-sen "1,315 votes Gen. Feng Vu-hsiang 127, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo 1,211 Dr. Wang Chung-hui T7153 Marshal Wu Pei-fu a5, Mr. Tsai, Yuan-pei 98 Dr. OG. T. Wang 925 Mr. Chang Chien 915 Gen. Yen Hsi-shan m2, Lr.' David ZT. Yui 703 President. Li Yuan-hung 671), Dr. Hu Suh 613, From the above it will be seen that Dr. Sun Yat-sen is ahead of his next rival, Gen. Fen hsiang, the Christian General, by 93_votes. 3 4 The next dozen on the list are:—
Dr. W. W. Yen 513 votes Mr. Liang Chi-chiao 44, Gen. Chen Chiung-ming 37, marshal Tuan Chi-jui 3563, Prof. Chang Tai-yen 3B, Dr. S. K. Alfred Sze Mr. ©. C. Nieh a2, Gen. Li Lich-chun 2B7 Cy, Mr. Tang Shao-yi P. W. Kuo 181 Cy, Lr. Huang Yen-pei 17% Mr. Kang Vu-wei 155 Mr. Kang Vu-wei, 2th on the list, is the famous advocate for a constitutional monarchy.
Voters were asked to "make their selections as broadly as possible in order that principal lines of endeavour might be represented, such as government officials, political and military leaders, business men, bankers and professional men, etc." The voting was open to foreigners as well as Chinese, each voter stating whether he was Chinese, foreigner or Chines" student. The latter class took, perhaps, the most interest in the contest as the number of balloting papers received from them indicate The names of the voters were not signed on the papers.
Tue death is announced of Mr. Cyril Pemberton who was for some years secretary of the China Fire Insurance Ao. before its. absorption by the Union Insurance Society of Canton. During the past six or seven years Mr. Pemberton had been in charge of the Union's fire department in London. who had been elected by his fellow labourers to speak, said "AN riesha men should thank the '"North-China Daily News'' for its kindness in securing so much money to help us. We thank the editor and his staff and we thank all our foreign friends who have been so friendly and kind to us.
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