Friday's Commemoratio A. Retrospect of Thirteen Years of Increasing Strife By Groner China faces the "Double Tenth," the anniversary of the founding of the Republic, with a sense of insecurity, of uncertainty, in the midst lof the most serious phase of the leivil war which has been ever-present since October 10, 1911.
China became a republic, largely jas a result of a revolutionary movement which originally sought to restore the Dragon Throne to.
indigenous Chinese dynasty, but which, having succeeded in frighten-jing the Manchus with almost no fighting, determined to abolish old forms and model a new government, designed after the models of the United States and France. The Manchu Emperor abdicated on February 12, 1912, having been promised liberal treatment and ample pension, A Republican for was by that time already functioning in Nanking under the Presidency of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who returned from exile to take the positi Dr. Sun, however, not long to remain in' office, for immediately upon the Manchu abdication, Jagreement, he resigned his office in favour of Yuan Shih-kai, at that time the most powerful man in the tral Government.
Yuan's jchieal' schemed failed. He Tune 6, 1916,
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