Dr. Sun's narrowest escape from divath, according to the Japanes= press, was at Canton in 1895. One of his plots to assassinate the Manchu officials and seize the city was betrayed, and a round-up of the leaders was set in motion. Dr. Sun fled with a band of hostile soldiers at his heels. Suddenly a door opened and he was drawn inside, "The door closed as mysteriously as it had opened, the pursuers passed on. A' friendly servant, in the employ of a prominent mandavin, had made the Three days later, from a wi ame house, fugitive Dr. Sun watehed as 15 of his followers were put tw death."
How high British officials manaseel to save Dr. Sun from the exveutioner's axe is also. prominent ly played up here. While in Lon-ion, Dr. Sun was' kidnapped and held a prisoner in the Chinese emassy. "He was held until steamer could take him und to the ghastly death that there awaited him. Somehow he managed to communicate with friends out side, and high British Government officials, largely through the fact of Dr. Sun having @ claim to American nationality, secured his release.
The Nationality Dilemma The alleged American nationality of Dr. Sun is of a kind that perhaps cannot be duplicated in the world. Al the text books say that Dr. Sua was born in the Kuangtung Province, South China. This is cor. eet, but, at the same time, there in a little parish church in Bawl an attested statement to the eff that Dr. Sun was born in Haw and was duly registered there as an American citizen. How did this jerome about? When Dr. Sun was being hunted and hounded by the Manchus, some of the prominent American and British residents in Hawaii, solemnly committed perjury. fas the only way to save Dr. Sun's Perjury, no doubt it was, bus very pardonable perjury.
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