i Ping-shu, who was Pret dent of the Civil Guardemen Corpe during the 1913 rebellion and, coerced by Chen Chi-mei, called on Admiral Tseng Jucheng and Admiral T. 8. Lee twice, demanding that they withdraw from the Arsenal to save the horror of a war, is to return to Shanghai, After the fighting which took place and Chen Chi-mmei's defeat, Mr. Li went to Soochow, and from there proceeded to Japan. Mr. Li was on very cordial terms with the gen try and merchants of this port during the several years he spent here. Some of his friends in Peking and Shanghai, taking advantage of the amnesty order, have petitioned President Yuan for the restoration of his liberty. They say that Li wae an expectant magistrate in Kuangtung during the reign of Kuanghs In 1809, when he trate of Suichihsien, he was lered because of his neglect in pressing a riot in connexion with the demarkation of Kuangchowwan. He was given back his official rank, though not his office, the following year, when he was appointed Secretary of the Military Academy in Hupeh by H. E. Chang Chih-tung.
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